Highlights
Emerging Infectious Diseases

Highlights

• Discovered the SARS coronavirus in 2003; pivotal in the fight against SARS
• Leading infectious diseases research and advancing the frontier in the study of human and animal influenzas (poultry, swine, wild birds, and camels), coronavirus (SARS, H5N1, H7N9, MERS, and COVID-19), and other emerging viruses
• Infectious disease epidemiology: provides critical insights into influenza transmission in the community; effectiveness and impact of control measures; modes of transmission of viruses; vaccination effectiveness; immunity to infections; mathematical models to assess the potential benefits and resource requirement of mitigation and surveillance strategies
  
   

RGC Theme-based Research / Area of Excellence Scheme

• Project Coordinator: Professor Zhiwei CHEN (2025)
  • Sustained cART-free HIV-1 Control by Immunotherapeutic Interventions
• Project Coordinator: Professor Dong-Yan JIN
  • Ecology, Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis of SARSCoV-2: From Bedside to Bench and Back
• Project Coordinator: Professor Leo Lit-man POON
  • Virological, Immunological and Epidemiological Characterization of COVID-19
• Project Coordinator: Professor Benjamin John COWLING (2019)
  • Control of Influenza: Individual and Population Immunity
• Project Coordinator: Professor Zhiwei CHEN (2018)
  • Potentiating Host Immunity for HIV-1 Functional Cure
• Project Coordinator: Professor Joseph Sriyal Malik PEIRIS (2014)
  • Viral, Host and Environmental Determinants of Influenza Virus Transmission and Pathogenesis
• Project Coordinator: Professor Joseph Sriyal Malik PEIRIS (2008) 
  • Control of Pandemic and Inter-pandemic Influenza

State Key Laboratory

• State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Collaborative Laboratories

• WHO H5 Reference Laboratory
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control