by admin | May 22, 2024
Secretin was the first hormone to be discovered, back in 1902. For decades, its actions were thought to be limited to gastro-intestinal functions. But this century, thanks in part to the work of Professor Billy Chow Kwok-chong, Chair of Endocrinology in the School of...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Antibiotic resistance is a growing, global problem. In the US, about 70 per cent of bacteria in hospitals are resistant to at least one commonly used antibiotic, and 25 per cent resistant to more than one. In Europe, drug-resistant bacterial infections have led to...
by admin | May 22, 2024
When Professor Chak-sing Lau, Daniel C K Yu Professor in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, was a young doctor in the UK in the late 1980s deciding what to specialise in, he was steered towards the emerging field of rheumatology. It turned out to be a fortuitous...
by admin | May 20, 2024
Big pharma have been coming to the HKU-CTC for years to test new drugs, either to meet FDA requirements (multi-centre clinical trials must be conducted on patients from different parts of the world to gain approval) or to test new treatments for diseases that are...
by admin | May 16, 2024
The discovery is the result of a collaboration between HKUMed and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), and originated from introducing the concept of ‘antigenic distance’ and ‘antigen field’ to select the optimal booster vaccine seed strain.“The...
