by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Dried blood spot cards contain tiny blood samples from newborns that allow for early detection of disease. They also contain valuable information for medical research. But using the cards for research is not a given. Parents worry that if the cards are shared or...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
The team, led by Professor Honglin Chen, developed the vaccine by utilising a live attenuated influenza virus (LAIV) vaccine platform – DelNS1 LAIV – which they originally developed in 2018. They first used the DelNS1 LAIV platform, which is designed for the...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Scientists at HKUMed have invented a groundbreaking regimen – an oral formulation of arsenic trioxide (oral-ATO, or ARSENOL®) – for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), a blood cancer which has a high fatality rate. They have been...
by admin | Nov 15, 2024
As a secondary school student, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, Henry Fok Professor in Infectious Diseases, was a keen member of the astronomy club. Little did he realise that his fascination with the universe would lay the seeds for his future career at the opposite scale –...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024
The pandemic had many downsides but for Professor Nancy Man Kwan, Chair Professor of Transplant Oncology and Immunology from the Department of Surgery and an expert in liver transplantation and disease, it offered a silver lining. Forced to halt her visits to...
