Research Projects
Translational drug allergy - reshaping the approach to allergy delabelling


Programme(s) to which this project applies:
☑ MPhil/PhD ☒MRes[Med] ☑ URIS

Objective and Significance:

  • To study comparative epidemiology of drug allergy labels and genuine allergy labels across different populations 
  • Devise and investigate novel strategies in delabelling incorrect drug allergies
  • Investigate the impact of delabelling incorrect drug allergies (especially penicillin) on healthcare resources and antimicrobial stewardship

Research Plan and Methodology:
Cross-sectional and prospective clinical studies in patients labelled with drug allergy, investigating the longitudinal impacts of delabelling

Professor PH Li, Department of Medicine

Professor Philip Li is a Specialist in Immunology & Allergy and Clinical Assistant Professor of the University of Hong Kong. He currently serves as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology of the Department of Medicine. He is the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Allergy and a Board Director of the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology.

Professor Li established Hong Kong’s first specialist training centre in Immunology & Allergy and leads the territory-wide Hong Kong Drug Allergy Delabelling Initiative (HK-DADI). Professor Li also heads the Immunology & Allergy services of the Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster, which has been accredited as both an Urticaria and Angioedema Centre of Reference and Excellence (UCARE and ACARE). For his outstanding clinical contributions, he received the Chief Executive’s Commendation for Public Service and HKUMed Clinical Service Excellence Award in 2022.

Professor Li has special interests in anaphylaxis, drug hypersensitivity and immunodeficiency. He has led and authored many of the region’s Immunology & Allergy guidelines, including consensus statements on anaphylaxis and COVID19 vaccine allergy safety. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of allergy, immunology and autoimmunity; and serves on the Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Allergy, and Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology.

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For more information or to express interest for this project, please email the supervisor or the specified contact point in the project description.  Interested candidates are advised to enclose with your email:

  1. your CV,
  2. a brief description of your research interest and experience, and
  3. two reference letters (not required for HKUMed UG students seeking MRes[Med]/URIS projects).

Information on the research programme, funding support and admission documentations could be referenced online at the Research Postgraduate Admissions website. General admission enquiries should be directed to rpgmed@hku.hk.

HKUMed MBBS students interested in the Master of Research in Medicine (MRes[Med]) programme may visit the programme website for more information.  

HKUMed UG students interested in the Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme (URIS) may visit the scheme’s website for more information. 

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