Professor Poon has strong interests that are related to emerging viruses, ranging from studying basic biology of RNA viruses to developing molecular diagnostic tools for infectious diseases. His work primarily focuses on influenza virus and coronavirus. …

Professor Poon's research primarily focuses on emerging and re-emerging viruses that pose human health concerns, such as SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and human/animal influenza viruses. He employs the "One Health" concept to study emerging viruses at the animal-human interface.

Leo Poon Lit-man (潘烈文) is the Head of the Division of Public Health Laboratory Science of the University of Hong Kong. [1] In July 2020, Professor Malik Peiris stepped down from the position of co-director of the joint research pole between Hong Kong University and the Pasteur Institute (HKU-Pasteur), and Professor Leo Poon succeeded to ...

Professor Leo Poon received his doctoral training in Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in University of Oxford (1996-1999). After his graduation, he returned to Hong Kong and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1999-2001). He joined the University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant Professor in 2001.

潘烈文（Poon, Lit Man Leo），病毒学家、公共卫生科学家，英国皇家内科医生学会公共卫生学院院士（FFPH）， 香港大学李嘉诚医学院 副院长（人力资本）、公共卫生病毒学讲座教授、公共卫生实验室科学分部主任，香港大学巴斯德研究中心联席总监。 [1] 潘烈文持有 香港浸会大学 理学学士学位、 香港中文大学 哲学硕士学位，于 牛津大学 威廉·邓恩爵士病理学院接受博士培训。 毕业后返回香港，在香港中文大学从事博士后研究。 他在2001年加入香港大学担任研究助理教 …

潘教授是多個國際組織的義務專家，並擔任世界衞生組織、聯合國糧食及農業組織和世界動物衞生組織的傳染病控制任務組內的義務顧問成員。 他亦是《Virology Journal》的聯合主編。 Gu H, Quadeer AA, Krishnan P, Ng DYM, Chang LDJ, Liu GYZ, Cheng SMS, Lam TTY, Peiris M, McKay MR, Poon LLM. Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals.

Induction of proinflammatory cytokines in human macrophages by influenza A (H5N1) viruses: a mechanism for the unusual severity of human disease? CY Cheung, LLM Poon, AS Lau, W Luk, YL Lau, KF...

Professor Poon's research primarily focuses on emerging and re-emerging viruses that pose human health concerns, such as SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and human/animal influenza viruses. He employs the "One Health" concept to study emerging viruses at the animal-human interface.

Professor Leo Poon, a virologist and public health scientist, received his doctoral training at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. Currently, he serves as a Chair Professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

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