Research Programmes

Dr. Zhiwei Chen: (please click name for detail)

1) AIDS Vaccine and Pathogenesis
2) Drug Discovery and New Vaccine Design
3) HIV Epidemic in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Dr. Mei-Yun Zhang: (please click name for detail)

1) Mechanisms of the interplay of antibodies and viruses in humans, in particular, the highly mutable viruses, HIV-1 and influenza virus
2) Antibody-based prophylactics and therapeutics for HIV/AIDS
3) Neutralizing antibody-guided vaccine design for HIV/AIDS
4) Development of antibody-based drugs for cancer diagnosis and therapy
5) Antibody engineering

Dr. Li Liu: (please click name for detail)

1) HIV Drug Discovery
2) SARS Pathogenesis Study

Dr. Allen Cheung: (please click name for detail)

1) Studying the interplay between CMV and HIV-1 in latent infection
2) Characterising the immune functional aspect of a PD-1 isoform
3) Identifying the receptor/ligand of a PD-1 isoform

Dr. Ka Wai Cheung: (please click name for detail)

1) Mechanisms involved in the CD4 T cell depletion during HIV-1 infection
2) Mechanisms involved in HIV-1 latency reactivation
3) Establishment of a rapid, high throughput and cost effective drug resistance screening platform

Dr. Haibo Wang: (please click name for detail)

1) MVTT based AIDS vaccine
2) HIV epidemic in China

Dr. Vikram Srivastava (please click name for detail)

Other AIDS Researchers in HKU:

Professor Allan SY Lau (please click name for detail)

Professor, Molecular Chinese Medicine Laboratory/Cytokine Biology Group, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine

Dr. James Chun-Bong Li (please click name for detail)

Research Assistant Professor, Molecular Chinese Medicine Laboratory/Cytokine Biology Group, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine

Professor Bojian Zheng (please click name for detail)

Professor, Department of Microbiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Wing Cheong Yam (please click name for detail)

Clinical Bacteriologist/Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine