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Disease Ecology Symposium and Training: 28 Nov - 2 Dec in Thailand
Organised by the Tropical Disease Research Center, Mahidol University, Kanchanaburi Campus. The main venue for the symposium and training...
Oct 24, 2022


Leo Poon: Giving young talents multiple opportunities of training and new knowledge
Following the Grand Prix France Hong Kong, Professor Leo Poon met with LePetitJournal to discuss HKU-Pasteur Fellowship and research at...
Oct 19, 2022


Resurgence of Omicron BA.2 in SARS-CoV-2 infection-naive Hong Kong
Vijay Dhanasekaran’s team investigated the surge of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong in early 2022 and the efficiency of the estimates...
Oct 13, 2022

The HKU-Pasteur Fellowship awarded by the Grand Prix France Hong Kong
The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole Fellowship program received the Knowledge Transfer award during a ceremony hosted by the Consul General of...
Sep 30, 2022


Pasteur Courses: Vaccinology
This four-week course presents an integrated overview of vaccinology, from public health data and scientific results justifying the...
Sep 29, 2022


HKU-PRP Fellowship: Greetings from Paris!
HKUPRP fellowship laureates are now in Paris! This program enables young researchers from all Hong Kong and Macau universities to conduct...
Sep 9, 2022


Serology study on the potential benefits of Covid-19 vaccination
Professor Leo Poon, co-director of The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, and his team conducted a comprehensive serology study on the effects of...
Sep 8, 2022

How is it to conduct research at HKUPRP? - Testimony from Tomas Lyu, PhD student
Tomas first joined our research pole as a MPhil student, before starting a PhD a few months later, all of that under the guidance of...
Sep 1, 2022


Stay up to date on HKU-Pasteur’s news with the August Newsletter!
The HKU-Pasteur’s newsletter sums up what the Pole has been up to over the recent weeks, from scientific publications to PI and student’s...
Aug 22, 2022


Immunogenicity and reactogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines BNT162b2 and CoronaVac in healthy teenagers
Malik Peiris and Sophie Valkenburg's teams investigated potential immune reactions and adverse effects of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines BNT162b2...
Aug 19, 2022


Yihan Lin: “HKU-Pasteur is like a big family that has accompanied me through the past two years"
Yihan, young MPhil graduate in virology from Chris Mok's team, looks back on her experience at HKU-Pasteur. Within her MPhil study aimed...
Aug 4, 2022


International travel, the gut microbiome, and ESBL-E coli carriage
Professor Hein Tun, from HKU-Pasteur, together with PhD student Ye Peng share their thoughts and analysis on an article written by...
Jul 28, 2022

The Pasteur Network teams up with the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute
The Covid-19 outbreak the world has gone through over the past two years showed how vulnerable our societies can be to pandemics and...
Jul 28, 2022


Ray So: "I hope that my research can help the development of therapeutics to treat viral infections"
Ray, young PhD graduate in virology, shares with us his experience at HKU-Pasteur. Reflecting on his experience as a PhD graduate, Ray...
Jul 28, 2022


Influenza B circulation in China during prolonged border closure from 2020 to 2021
Vijay Dhanasekaran's team investigated the evolution and epidemiology of influenza B in China amid heightened testing, international...
Jul 15, 2022


Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater treatment plants mirrors the pandemic trend in HK
Leo Poon and Hein Min Tun from the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole used wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) to analyse the evolution of the...
Jul 14, 2022


Strength and durability of antibody responses to BNT162b2 and CoronaVac
Leo Poon and Malik Peiris recently conducted a study on antibody response to the two Covid-19 vaccines available to the general public in...
Jul 13, 2022

Ye Peng Awarded For His Research On Gut Microbiota
Laureate of the first HKU-Pasteur Research Pole Fellowship and PhD candidate under Dr Hein Min Tun, Ye Peng was awarded by the Beijing...
Jul 7, 2022


Natural Reassortment of Eurasian Avian-Like Swine H1N1 and Avian H9N2 Influenza Viruses in Pigs
Published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a study led by Prof. Leo Poon and Prof. Malik Peiris from HKU-Pasteur Research Pole and the...
Jun 27, 2022


[Job Opening] Research Assistant Professor
Applications are invited for appointment as Research Assistant Professor in the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole of the School of Public Health...
Jun 27, 2022
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