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Featured Scholar
Professor Peiris, Joseph Sriyal Malik
- Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
- Scientific Director of HKU Pasteur Research Centre
- Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
- Professor (Clinical)
- Professor: Chair of Virology
Research Interests
- Innate immune responses to virus infections and clinical disease burden of influenza and other respiratory viruses
- He played a key role in the discovery that a novel coronavirus was the cause of SARS
- Emerging virus disease at the animal-human interface including influenza, coronaviruses, and (in the past) arboviruses
- Pathogenesis
- Control of Pandemic and Inter-pandemic Influenza
- Virus-tropism
- Understanding the ecology, epidemiology, pathogenesis and control of animal and human influenza viruses
Hub News
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