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May 31

How COVID-19 created dramatic changes in a 'winter virus'

Vijay Dhanasekaran published a major study with colleagues from the University of Sydney highlighting the role of the COVID-19 pandemic...

How COVID-19 created dramatic changes in a 'winter virus'

May 31

[Podcast] Leo Poon on COVID19:"By May 2020 we have sent reagents to over 150 labs in 70 countries"

Leo Poon shares about the significance of the connection and collaboration in the early hours of COVID-19 with Vivien Marx (Nature...

[Podcast] Leo Poon on COVID19:"By May 2020 we have sent reagents to over 150 labs in 70 countries"

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...

Malik Peiris finds Omicron significantly reduces virus neutralisation ability of BioNTech vaccine

Dec 9, 2021

Development of the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within hours

Professor Leo Poon and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (HKU) developed the world’s first stainless steel against SARS-CoV-2. The...

Development of the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within hours

Dec 7, 2021

Joint CUHK-HKU study discovers efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines correlates with a probiotic bacterium,

Press release The Centre for Gut Microbiota Research of the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) is...

Joint CUHK-HKU study discovers efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines correlates with a probiotic bacterium,