Centre for Virology, Vaccinology and Therapeutics

Centre Overview

Proactive and effective “surveillance and control” of epidemic infectious diseases outbreaks relies on the comprehensive knowledge of the viruses circulating in animals and human, reliable prediction of the potential of these animal viruses to jump interspecies barrier from animal to human, highly-multiplex diagnostic tests for rapid detection of these viruses in healthcare and field setting, broad spectrum antivirals for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment, and most importantly, a safe and towards-universal vaccine platform with heterologous protection against antigenically drifted viruses. The Centre for Virology, Vaccinology and Therapeutics (CVVT) is set to provide these conditions.

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ITC Site Visit by Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, Ms Rebecca PUN and Deputy Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, Mr Arthur AU.

CVVT’s Laboratory located at Science Park

Scientific Webinar Symposium: Thought Leadership Series: Combating Emerging Infectious Diseases, co-organised by Centre for Virology, Vaccinology and Therapeutics, HKU Department of Microbiology and HKSTP this webinar.

(From left to right) Dr. Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Dr. Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Prof. Honglin Chen, Prof. Yuen Kwok Yung , Prof. Dongyan Jin, Prof. Zhiwei Chen and Dr. Kin-Hang Kok.

HKU Establishes Mature Airway Organoids for Predicting the Infectivity of Emerging Influenza Virus. Group photo of Professor Yuen (front), Dr Zhou (left) and the research team members.

HKU Discovers Novel Drug Compounds and Associated Drug Target for Broad-spectrum Antiviral Therapy. Group photo of the research team (from left) Dr Jasper Chan Fuk-woo, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, Dr Yuan Shuofeng and Dr Chu Hin.