Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant from pet hamsters to humans
Leading to onward human-to-human transmission: a case study Malik Peiris and Leo Poon just published a report in the Lancet showing that...
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Mar 8, 2022
Celebrating The International Women's Day 2022
March 8 is the International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women....
Mar 3, 2022
Exploring the landscape of immune responses to influenza infection and vaccination
Leo Poon and Sophie Valkenburg commented for Nature Medicine the unique influenza vaccine cohort study led in Vietnam by Maria Auladell....
Feb 18, 2022
Development of a Transparent Anti-SARS-CoV-2 and Antibacterial Silver Oxide Coatings
Leo Poon's team and collaborators from Virginia Tech have developed a transparent antibacterial silver oxide coating which reduces 99.3%...
Feb 9, 2022
Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 under an elimination strategy in Hong Kong
C2i and the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole studied the viral dynamics of the four previous SARS-CoV-2 waves in Hong Kong. Their findings are...
Feb 7, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Replication in Human Bronchus and Lung Ex Vivo
Ex vivo models show how Omicron replicates in upper and lower respiratory tissues, it's cell entry mechanism and it's pathogenicity....
Jan 27, 2022
Surveillance of Rodent Pests for SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses in Hong Kong
Our teams report surveillance of rodent pests for SARS-CoV-2 and other Coronaviruses during the 4th wave of COVID-19 in early 2021 in...
Jan 26, 2022
Countries Primarily Using CoronaVac Vaccines Should Consider mRNA Vaccine Boosters to face Omicron
Malik Peiris signed with Leo Poon a new publication in Nature Medicine suggesting that countries primarily using CoronaVac vaccines...
Dec 16, 2021
Omicron variant can multiply 70 times faster than other strains in lower respiratory tracts of hosts
South China Morning Post reports Michael Chan and team findings and warns the overall threat could be ‘very significant’, although there...
Dec 14, 2021
Malik Peiris finds Omicron significantly reduces virus neutralisation ability of BioNTech vaccine
A recent study jointly conducted by the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) and the Faculty of Medicine, The...
Dec 8, 2021
Development of the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within hours
Leo Poon and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (HKU) developed the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus...
Dec 8, 2021
Probable Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Quarantine Hotel, Hong Kong, Nov-21
Leo Poon reports in Emerging Infectious Diseases the detection of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) in an asymptomatic, fully...
Dec 8, 2021
Electron Microscope Image of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant
Prof Malik Peiris, Managing Director at C2i and Prof John Nicholls from the Department of Pathology at HKU have released an electron...
Oct 13, 2021
A Push for Real Normal: Mass Screening for COVID-19
Leo Poon provided an editorial on mass screening strategies fo COVID-19 for Clinical Chemistry. In this publication, Professor Leo Poon,...
Oct 13, 2021
Reduction of Infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 by Zinc Oxide Coatings
Professor Leo Poon, Principal Investigator at C2i and Co-Director of HKU-Pasteur, published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering...
Sep 23, 2021
Air Travel-Related Outbreak of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Professor Malik Peiris and Professor Leo Poon signed a paper in the Journal of Travel Medicine with HKU-Pasteur's team about a large...
Sep 13, 2021
Congratulations Professor Peiris!
We are very proud to share that Professor Malik Peiris won the Future Science Prize in life sciences alongside Professor Yuen Kwok-yung...
Jul 30, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Specific T Cell Responses Are Lower In Children And Increase With Age And Time
Sophie Valkenburg, Principal Investigator at HKU-Pasteur, and her team sign a major publication in Nature Communications, with Malik...
Jul 19, 2021
New Study Compares Antibody Level in BioNTech and Sinovac Vaccine Recipients
Cosigned by Malik Peiris in the Lancet Microbe, the study has found that recipients of the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine have 10 times more...
Jul 13, 2021
Leo Poon To Coordinate Major UGC Funded TRS 2021/2022 Project
The University Grant Council has announced the results of the Theme-based Research Scheme 2021/22 funding approval on 13 July with eight...
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