Seminars & Conferences
Seminar: Further Development of Human Antibodies against HIV and Influenza Viruses
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Time: 2p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Paul Zhou, Professor and Unit Chief, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: The Genetics and Biology of Nicotine Dependence
Date: Friday, January 18, 2013
Time: 4 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Ming D. Li, PhD, Jean and Ronald Butcher Distinguished Professor, Head of Neurobiology Section & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Engineered Antibody Domains as Candidate Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Date: Monday, September 17, 2012
Time: 3p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov, Head, Protein Interaction Group, Senior Investigator of the CCR Nanobiology Program, Center for Cancer Research, USA.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: The Effort on Discovery and Optimization of New Chemical Agents that Inhibit Non-replicating and Replicating Mtb
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Time: 3p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Gang LIU, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Chair of Department, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Exploring Connectivity in HIV Epidemiology Studies
Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 11a.m.
Venue: Conference Room 004, G/F, University Pathology Building, Queen Mary Hosptial
Speaker: Dr. Shui Shan LEE, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) and Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Behavioral and Molecular Evidence for a Feedback Interaction between Addictive Substances and HIV Viral Proteins
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Time: 11a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Sulie L. CHANG, Director, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology; Professor, Biological Sciences/Neuroscience, Seton Hall University, NJ, U.S.A.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Antibody Profiling, Epitope Mapping and Vaccine Design Based on Yeast Surface Display System
Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011
Time: 3 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Linqi ZHANG, Director/Professor, Institute of Human Virology, Comprehensive AIDS Research Center, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University; Director/Professor, AIDS Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Optimizing Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-infected Patients
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Time: 4 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Man-po LEE, Associate Consultant, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Advances in HIV-1 Vaccine Development
Date: Monday, October 24, 2011
Time: 4 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Sandhya Vasan, M.D., Clinical Trial Physician, United States Military HIV Research Program, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: A Novel Fusion Gene TRIMCyp in Pig-tailed Macaque determines its Susceptibility to HIV-1 Infection
Date: Monday, August 15, 2011
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Yong-Tang ZHENG, Professor, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: From Alzheimer's Disease Research to Understand other Neurodegeneration leading to Dementia: The Common Modes of Neurodegeneration
Date: Friday, June 24, 2011
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, Ground Floor, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Raymond Chuen-Chung CHANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, HKU; Secretary, Alzheimer's Disease Research Network, HKU
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: System Biology to Decipher Protective Immune Feature during HIV Infection
Date: Friday, May 27, 2011
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, Ground Floor, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Jianqing XU, M.D., Ph.D.,, Professor, Fudan University, China
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Special Features of 2009-pandemic HA and NA
Date: Friday, April 29, 2011
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor George Fu GAO, Vice President, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) & Director and Professor, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Challenges of HIV/AIDS at the Bench, in the Clinic, and from the Field (Joint Seminar Organized by the ITC, CUHK, and HKU)
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Shaw Auditorium, Postgraduate Education Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital
Speaker: Dr. David Ho, Director of Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, NY & Irene Diamond Professor at the Rockefeller University, NY. Time Magazine "Man of the Year" 1996.
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: How Vaccine Adjuvants can be used to Build Protective Immune Responses
Date: Monday, January 17, 2011
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, Director of Endocrinology and Professor of Flinders University, Australia
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Immunization against AIDS Viruses in Primates: Correlates of Protection
Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Ruth M. Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D., Ruth M. Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar Jointly Presented by the AIDS Institute and the Research Centre of Infection and Immunology: "NeuroAIDS: A Tango of HIV and the Host"
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 004, G/F, University Pathology Building, Queen Mary Hospital
Speaker: Dr. Shilpa J. Buch, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Cross-reactive HIV-1-Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies - Candidate Therapeutics and Implications for Design of Vaccine Immunogens
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov, Head, Protein Interaction Group, Senior Investigator of the CCR Nanobiology Program, Center for Cancer Research, USA
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Develop Engineered Human Monoclonal Antibodies against HIV-1 and Influenza Viruses
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Paul Zhou, Professor and Unit Chief of Anti-Viral Immunity and Genetic Therapy Unit, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: HIV Interactions with Dendritic Cells
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Li Wu, Associate Professor, Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, USA
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Immunopathogenesis of HIV-HBV Co-infection
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Sharon Lewin, Professor and Director of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Australia
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Inhalation Drug Delivery for Lung Diseases and Vaccination
Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Prof Hak-Kim Chan (CV and List of Publications), Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Australia
All are welcome | Free admission
World AIDS Day Lecture: Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Global Lounge, G/F, Swire Building, HKU Main Campus, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr Zhiwei Chen, Director, HKU - AIDS Institute
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Overview of HIV Strategy at GSK
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr Jinzi Wu, Vice President and Head, HIV Drug Performance Unit, Infectious Diseases Center of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline, RTP, NC, USA
All are welcome | Free admission
Research Seminar: Antibody-dependent enhancement of lung damage in Chinese macaque infected with pathogenic SARS-CoV
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Haibo Wang, PhD, HKU-AIDS Institute
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Alcohol and Cannabinoids: Implications for HIV-infected Patients
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Patricia Molina MD, PhD, Professor & Head, Department of Physiology, Louisiana State Universith Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA
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All are welcome | Free admission
Co-organised by the AIDS Institute & the Research Center of Infection and Immunology
Research Seminar: Early Events of SARS-CoV Infection in Chinese Macaques
Date: Friday, September 18, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Li Liu, Research Assistant Professor, HKU-AIDS Institute
All are welcome | Free admission
Research Seminar: Identification & Characterization of a Native Isoform of Human PD-1
Date: Friday, September 4, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Henggui Liu, Post-doctoral Fellow, HKU-AIDS Institute
All are welcome | Free admission
Seminar: Treatment of Simian AIDS with Traditional Chinese Medicine
Date: Monday, June 29, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speakers: Professor Lu Yaozeng & Professor Wu Xiaoxian, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Seminar: Clinical AIDS@24 in Hong Kong
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr Ka Hing Wong, Consultant Physician, Special Preventive Programme, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong
Seminar: HIV/AIDS & International Research Opportunities at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speakers: Dr David Shurtleff, Director, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, NIDA, NIH
Dr Diane Lawrence, Associate Director, AIDS Research Program, NIDA, NIH
Seminar: The Origins of Epidemic AIDS Viruses
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Preston Marx, Professor and Chair of Division of Microbiology, Interim Director of Center for Infectious Disease, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, USA (download Prof Marx's full CV)
Seminar: Non-human primate models for HIV/AIDS Research?
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Preston Marx, Professor and Chair of Division of Microbiology, Interim Director of Center for Infectious Disease, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, USA (download Prof Marx's full CV)
Public Lecture: Threats Posed by the AIDS Pandemic
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road
Speaker: Dr David D Ho, Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, USA
Seminar: Identification and Characterization of Cross-Reactive HIV-1-Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Mei-Yun Zhang, Scientist, Protein Interactions, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
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Seminar: HIV-1 gp41 Fusion Intermediate: A Target for HIV Therapeutics & Vaccines
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Shibo Jiang, Head, Laboratory of Viral Immunology, The Lindsley F Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, USA
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Seminar: How can we develop an effective microbicide?
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Allen Zhiwei Wu, Professor & Director, Center for Public Health Research,
Nanjing University, China
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Seminar: Mechanistic Basis for HIV-1 Coreceptor Switch
Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Professor Cecilia Cheng-Mayer, Aaron Diamond Professor and Staff Investigator, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA
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Seminar: Impact of HIV on T Cell Repertoire
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Paul Baum, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, USA
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Seminar: Advance in DNA and siRNA Delivery in vitro & in vivo
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Alain Cuzange, R&D and Business Manager,
Polyplus-transfection Company, France
Polyplus-transfection Company is a French life science company dedicated to the development and marketing of transfection reagents. Its technology focuses on linear jetPEI, which is non-toxic and highly efficient, and can be used in protein, antibody as well as gene, siRNA delivery. In vivo jetPEI is widely used in clinical trials for gene therapy.
Presentation slides
Seminar: Facilitated Antigen Presentation in Electroporation-mediated DNA Vaccination
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Prof Yuhong Xu, Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy,
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
About the speaker: Professor Yuhong Xu obtained her BS in Electrical Engineering from Peking University in 1990, and PhD in Biophysical Sciences from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. She had been a postgraduate researcher at the School of Pharmacy in University of California San Francisco, a post-doctoral researcher at Chrion Corporation (now part of Novartis AG), and a senior scientist at Merck Research Laboratories, before returning to China in 2000. She joined Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and was appointed as the Assistant Dean and then the Associate Dean of its newly founded School of Pharmacy. Currently she is Head of the Molecular Pharmaceutics Lab in the School of Pharmacy and the Director of Molecular Imaging in SJTU Med-X Research Institute.
Seminar: HIV and the Brain
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Ian Everall, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry,
University of California San Diego, USA
Seminar: The Natural History of Dendritic Cells in Peripheral Lymphoid Organs of Mice
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Kang Liu, Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology,
The Rockefeller University, USA
About the speaker: Dr Kang Liu obtained her PhD from the Rockefeller University with Dr Ralph Steinman in 2004. She then joined the University's Laboratory of Molecular Immunology as a post-doctoral associate and became a research associate in 2007 working with Dr Michel Nussenzweig in the field of dendritic cells' interaction with T cells and natural history of dendritic cells respectively. Dr Liu has published many papers in renowned journals including the Nature Immunology. Click here to view Dr Liu's CV.
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Workshop: HIV/AIDS after 25 Years of Research
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Zhiwei Chen, Director, HKU-AIDS Institute
Inauguration of AIDS Institute, November 22, 2007
Inauguration ceremony
The Institute's inauguration just before the World AIDS Day on December 1, 2007, marked the University's strategic direction in the fight against the global AIDS epidemic. Officiating the ceremony were Dr Victor Fung Kwok-King, HKU Council Chairman; Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, HKU Vice-Chancellor and President; Dr Hao Yang, Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health, the People's Republic of China; Dr Thomas Tsang Ho-Fai, Controller of the Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, HKSAR Government; Dr David D Ho, Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, The Rockefeller University; Dr Leong Che-Hung, Chairman of Hong Kong AIDS Foundation; Professor Raymond Liang Hin-Suen, Acting Dean of HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine; Professor Yuen Kwok-Yung, Chair Professor and Head of HKU Department of Microbiology; and Dr Zhiwei Chen, Director of the AIDS Institute.
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Inaugural symposium on "HIV/AIDS in China: Challenges and Opportunities"
- Keynote speech "AIDS Epidemic and Prospects for Control"
by Dr David D Ho, Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, The Rockefeller University
- Lecture "HIV/AIDS: China Takes Action and Meets the Challenges"
by Dr Zunyou Wu, Director, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Lecture “Basic and Clinical Research on HIV/AIDS in China – National 973 Programme”
by Dr Linqi Zhang, Director, AIDS Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
- Lecture “Challenges and Opportunities for AIDS Vaccine Research after Failure in Phase II Trial of Merck’s AIDS Vaccine”
by Dr Ling Chen, Director General, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lecture “First Glimpse of the Peptide Presentation by Rhesus Macaque MHC Class I: Crystal Structure of Manu-A*01 Complexed with Two Immunogenic SIV Epitopes and Insights into CTL Escape”
by Dr George F Gao, Director, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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