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Pathogenesis, Control of Pandemic and Inter-pandemic Influenza, Emerging virus disease at the animal-human interface including influenza, coronaviruses, and (in the past) arboviruses, He played a key role in the discovery that a novel coronavirus was the cause of SARS, Innate immune responses to virus infections and clinical disease burden of influenza and other respiratory viruses, Understanding the ecology, epidemiology, pathogenesis and control of animal and human influenza viruses, Virus-tropism
Hong Kong SAR China

Biography



Professor Malik Peiris is a clinical and public health virologist with a particular interest in emerging virus disease at the animal-human interface including influenza, coronaviruses and others. His current research encompasses the pathogenesis, innate immune responses, transmission, ecology and epidemiology of human and animal (poultry, swine, wild birds) influenza viruses. His research has provided understanding on the emergence and pathogenesis of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus and on avian influenza viruses H5N1, H9N2 and H7N9. His collaborative research has provided evidence-based options for the control of these viruses in poultry and in humans. In 2003, he played a key role in the discovery that a novel coronavirus was the cause of SARS, its diagnosis and pathogenesis. Currently he is researching the recently emerged MERS coronavirus.

He coordinates an 8 year multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional Area of Excellence Program of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong on the Control of Pandemic and Inter-pandemic Influenza. He is also an investigator in the Centres of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS) program of NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA. He has collaborative research activities with researchers in Europe through EU Framework research grants such as EMPERIE (FP7) on emerging infectious diseases and FLUPIG on influenza viruses in swine.

He co-directs the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory at HKU and serves on many standing committees and ad-hoc advisory committees of the WHO and FAO.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2006, awarded the Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur, France (2007), Mahathir Science Award, Akademi Sains, Malaysia (2007) and Silver Bauhinia Star (S.B.S.), Hong Kong SAR (2008). He serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases and PLoS Medicine.

Activities

Employment (5)

University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK, CN

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University of Hong Kong

Royal Victoria Infirmary: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

1988-09-01 to 1995-04-01 | Consultant Virologist (Virology)
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University of Peradeniya Faculty of Medicine: Peradeniya, Central, LK

1982-09-01 to 1988-09-30 | Senior Lecturer (Microbiology)
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University of Peradeniya: Peradeniya, Central, LK

1974-09-01 to 1982-08-31 | Lecturer (Microbiology)
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Department of Health: Matale, LK

1973-09-01 to 1974-09-01 | Medical Officer (Base Hospital Matale)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1977-09-01 to 1980-09-01 | D.Phil. (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
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University of Ceylon: Peradeniya, LK

1967-09-01 to 1972-05-01 | MBBS
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Funding (4)

Public Health Responses to threats of emerging, epidemic and endemic infectious diseases

2015-01 to 2019-12 | Grant
Health and Medical Research Fund (Hong Kong, HK)
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CID Phase III - HKU (Portfolio 2)

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Viral, Host and Environmental Determinants of Influenza Virus Transmission and Pathogenesis

2015-01 to 2019-12 | Grant
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong, HK)
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T11-705/14-N

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NIAID Centers of Excellence for lnfluenza Research and Surveillance

2014-04 to 2021-03 | Contract
NIAID (MD, US)
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HHSN272201400006C

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Peiris, JSM

Control of Pandemic and Inter-pandemic Influenza

2008-01 to 2016-12 | Grant
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong, HK)
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AoE/M-12/06

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Peer review (9 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for Cell discovery. (1)
Review activity for Communications medicine. (2)
Review activity for Nature (4)
Review activity for Nature reviews. (1)
Review activity for PLoS medicine. (1)