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Professor Peiris, Joseph Sriyal Malik 裴偉士

Title:
Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
Scientific Director of HKU Pasteur Research Centre
Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
Professor (Clinical)
Professor: Chair of Virology

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Professor Peiris, Joseph Sriyal Malik 裴偉士

Title:
Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
Scientific Director of HKU Pasteur Research Centre
Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
Professor (Clinical)
Professor: Chair of Virology

Also Cited As:
Peiris, M
Peiris, JS
Peiris, JSM
Peiris, J Malik
Peiris, Malik
Peiris, SM
J.S.M.Peiris
Peiris, Joseph S. M.
Malik Peiris
J S Malik Peiris
Malik Joseph Sriyal Peiris
Joseph S.M. Peiris
Joseph S. Malik Peiris
J. S.Peiris
Malik J S Peiris
Joseph S. Peiris
Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris
JS Peiris, Malik

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 (SARS, MERS) 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” and a recent Theme Based Research grant on “Influenza Transmission and Pathogenesis” from the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. He is an investigator in the Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS) program of NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA. He has an extensive collaborative research network globally.

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 d’Honneur, France (2007), Mahathir Science Award, AkademiSains, 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.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
Lee, DCW
Law, HY
2005-08-012nd Prize Young Investigator Award: 7th World Congress on Inflammation, Melbourne, Australia, 20-24 August 2005. [Inflammation Research–Official Journal of The International Societies, The European Histamine Research Society, 23 August 2005: S181.]
Research Achievement
2009-12-31The D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences: Medal "100 Years of Virology"
Research Achievement
2011-05-31Comparative Epidemiology of Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza A in Households in The New England Journal of Medicine. 2010 Jun 10; 362(23):2175-84.: 2011 Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award
Research Achievement
2010-05-31"Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic" in Nature 2009;459:1122-5.: Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award
Research Achievement
2005-05-01The Frederick Deinhardt Lectureship. Topic: Avian Influenza: A Pandemic Threat.: 21st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium. Florida, USA.
Research Achievement
2004-01-15The Gardner Lecture. Topic: Emerging infections from the Asian Region.: ESCV Winter Meeting Copenhagen 2004
Research Achievement
2003-10-02Professor PB Fernando Memorial Oration. Topic: SARS and other emerging infections.: Ceylon College of Physicians - Annual Academic Sessions 2003
Research Achievement
2006-02-01Pandemic Influenza: A Potential Role for Statins in Treatment and Prophylaxis: Clinical Infectious Diseases Award for Outstanding Review
Research Achievement
2003-12-0612th T.B. Teoh Foundation Lecture: Bird Flu-SARS, What's next?: Scientific Seminar, Hong Kong College of Pathologists
Research Achievement
2006-07-01Fellow: The Royal Society, London
Research Achievement
2005-03-01The Hottest Research of 2003-04. Scientists with Multiple Hot Papers. Ranked no. 1 with 9 hot papers cited during period.: Science Watch.
Research Achievement
2004-11-01Special Research Achievement Award for the Research Team in the Department of Microbiology 2004.: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2010-12-17Invited lecture: Plagues past, present and future.: The Hong Kong Academy of Hong Kong: 2010 David Todd Oration.
Others
2004-12-01Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship 2005-2006
Research Achievement
2006-11-0160 Years of TIME Asia's Heroes Award: Times Magazine
Research Achievement
2003-07-01"SARS Heroic Medal", "Hong Kong, Our Home - Salute to Health Care Workers Award" by Government of Hong Kong - for outstanding professionalism demonstrated at the SARS outbreak in 2003.
Research Achievement
2003-10-01Anti-SARS Gold Badge Award - by Hospital Authority - Hong Kong West Cluster - for outstanding contribution of colleagues who have volunteered to work in long period in SARS wards / ICU, or demonstrated high dediction, devotion and bravery in the care of SARS patients, or exemplary contribution in clinical management, research and infection control
Research Achievement
2004-11-01Outstanding Research Award of 2003-04: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2004-02-01Award of the Kandy Society of Medicine Fellowship for the year 2004: The Kandy Society of Medicine, Sri Lanka.
Research Achievement
Seto, WH
Shiu, EYC
2021-08-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award: LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
SHIU, Eunice Yuen Chi
Seto, WH
Hau, JPB
2019-08-01Best Poster Award (Public Health), 10th Options for the Control of Influenza: International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus Diseases
Research Achievement
LAU, Yiu Chung
Kwan, YW
Chan, LY
Feng, S
2019-07-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award: LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
MA, Chi
CHAI, Yujuan
Smith, DK
Wang, J
Duan, L
Li, L
Shen, Y
Zhang, Y
Jiang, J
2016-11-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2015-2016: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
LAU, Lee Hang Lincoln
So, HC
Ma, SK
Fang, J
Fung, ROP
2011-11-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2010-11: Cowling B.J., Chan K.H., Fang J., Lau L.L.H., So H.C., Fung R.O.P., Ma S.K., Kwong A.S.K., Chan C.W., Tsui W.W.S., Ngai H.Y., Chu D.W.S., Lee P.W.Y., Chiu M.C. and Leung G.M., Comparative epidemiology of pandemic and seasonal influenza A in households, New England Journal of Medicine. 2010, 362: 2175-2184
Research Achievement
Zhou, L
LIANG, Huyi
MA, Chi
CHAI, Yujuan
Smith, DK
OU, Zhihua
Wang, J
Duan, L
Liu, Y
Shen, Y
2014-01-012014 Research Output Prize: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
ZHOU, Jie
Wang, J
2014-11-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2013-2014: LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Li, K
Wang, J
Webster, RG
Qin, K
2005-07-01Research Output Prize, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, awarded for “H5N1 virus outbreak in migratory waterfowl” published in Nature, 2005: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2017-11-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2016-2017: LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Ho, CWJ
Cheung, MC
Ng, KC
Ching, HH
Lai, KL
KAM, Tong
2024-02-212023 Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award
Research Achievement
2016-01-01Fellow: American Society of Microbiology
Research Achievement
2016-01-01Honorary Fellow: The Hong Kong College of Community Medicine
Research Achievement
Cheung, YM
Ma, SK
Li, OTW
2011-11-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2010-2011: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Shortridge, KF
Cheung, YM
Ma, SK
Bahl, J
2012-03-012012 Research Output Prize: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Seto, WH
2018-08-01Best Abstract (Infection Control), 17th Asia-Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection cum 8th International Infection Control Conference: Hong Kong Society for Microbiology and InfectionHong Kong Infection Control Nurses’ Association
Research Achievement
2017-12-01Appointed Professor: The Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical School
Research Achievement
2018-02-01Scientific Advisory Board: Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne
Research Achievement
2018-06-01Donny Thomas Lectures series; Allan Granoff Lecture; Emerging Respiratory Virus Infections: A global threat: St Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.
Research Achievement
2018-06-01Science stars of East Asia: Nature
ISSN: 0028-0836 ; eISSN: 1476-4687
Research Achievement
2018-04-01Scientific Advisory Board: Institut Pasteur, Paris
Research Achievement
2016-09-01The EK YEOH Oration Lecture “Epidemics: Past, Present and Future” and EK Yeoh Oration Gold Medallion Award: Hong Kong College of Community Medicine
Others
2017-04-01Elected Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences: National Academy of Sciences, USA
Research Achievement
2017-04-01Distinction of “Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, France: Consulat General De France.
Research Achievement
2021-10-012021 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award: The John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
Research Achievement
2021-11-012021 Future Science Prize Award (Life Sciences): The Future Prize Foundation
Research Achievement
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