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Malik Peiris Published a Study Comparing Antibody Level in BioNTech and Sinovac Vaccine Recipients
Published in the Lancet Microbe with Prof Ben Cowling and Prof Gabriel Leung, the study has found that recipients of the BioNTech...
Jul 19, 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...
Jul 13, 2021


Impacts of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel-related gut microbiome and resistome ch
and resistome changes Our gut microbes are sensitive to environmental changes and exposures. Travel act as a key setting in which such...
Jun 11, 2021


HKUMed discovers a causal link among food allergies, gut microbiota development in infancy
birth methods and mother’s ethnicity PRESS RELEASE Researchers from HKU-Pasteur Research Pole (HKU-PRP) at the School of Public Health,...
May 28, 2021


First Participants Vaccinated In HKU Trial To Test COVID-19 Vaccines In Healthy Adolescents
PRESS RELEASE Investigators of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of...
May 11, 2021


Coronavirus Seroprevalence Among Villagers Exposed To Bats In Thailand
Hein Min Tun signed with colleagues from the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Re‐emerging Infectious Diseases in Animals of the...
Apr 27, 2021


Understanding the microbial composition of the respiratory tract in hospitalized Covid-19 patients
Hein Min Tun’s team, in collaboration with colleagues from Denmark, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen among others, have studied the...
Apr 20, 2021


Multi-platform omics analysis reveals molecular signature for COVID-19 pathogenesis, prognosis
and drug target discovery Hein Min Tun and colleagues published in Nature's Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy about a...
Apr 19, 2021


Role Of Gut Microbiota In Travel-Related Acquisition
Of Extended Spectrum β-lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae What a week for the Tun Lab! After their publication in Gastroenterology...
Mar 25, 2021


Ethnicity Associations With Food Sensitization Are Mediated By Gut Microbiota Development
In The First Year Of Life New publication from the Tun Lab!
Dr Hein Min Tun, Ye Peng (PhD student) and team published in...
Mar 24, 2021


HKU-Pasteur In Best of Cell Reports 2020 List
Cell Reports anounced its Best of 2020 list, highlighting the jounrnal's major and most impactful publications of the past year. Amongst...
Feb 18, 2021


Cupric Oxide Coating That Rapidly Reduces Infection by SARS-CoV-2 via Solids
Leo Poon, Co-Director at HKU-Pasteur, and Alex Chin, Alex Chin, investigator in Professor Poon’s team, just published the new...
Feb 10, 2021


Investigation of the antibody landscape in children: SARS-CoV-2 infected children have lower levels
of antibodies than adults Children are less clinically affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection than adults with the majority of cases being mild...
Jan 26, 2021


SARS-CoV-2 Infection Elicits Robust Neutralizing Antibody Titres In Most Individuals
Prof Leo Poon and Prof Malik Peiris published in Nature Communications the results of their study on neutralizing antibody titres in...
Jan 12, 2021


Follow-up: Project On Sewage Helps Uncover Nine Infections In Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong sewage surveillance project involving HKU-Pasteur research teams will extend its screening capacity after...
Jan 12, 2021


SARS-COV-2: Multidisciplinary Project On Sewage Helps Safeguarding Public Health In Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong's multidisciplinary team conducting a research for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in sewage has led to improvements in...
Dec 30, 2020


C&E News 2020 Review To Celebrate Chris Mok’s Paper
In its review largely dominated by SARS-CoV-2 publications, C&E News has selected Chris Mok's paper about antibody CR3022 and SARS-CoV-2...
Dec 29, 2020


4-Year Research Goup Within The IPIN Call For Application 2020
The Institut Pasteur 2020 call for application for 4-year Research groups is now open ! To encourage the development of ambitious...
Dec 3, 2020


Evaluation of a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test for detection of antibody
in human, canine, cat and hamster sera In a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology of the American Society for...
Nov 12, 2020


COVID-19: Persons Without A Robust Neutralizing Antibody Response Might Be At Risk
For SARS-COV-2 Reinfection Asmaa Hachim and Niloufar Kavian from Sophie Valkenburg's team have published in Emerging Infectious Diseases...
Nov 2, 2020


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