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Professor Raven Kok 郭健恒

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Associate Professor

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Professor Raven Kok 郭健恒

Title:
Associate Professor

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Also Cited As:
KOK KH

Short Biography:

Professor Kok is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong. He is a molecular virologist and has been interested in the host-virus interaction and host antiviral responses including “interferon signaling”. He first identified a host antiviral protein, PACT, that can recognize the viral defective interfering RNAs and optimally induce the production of type-I interferon, an indispensable primary antiviral response during early infection. He continued to characterize this novel antiviral mechanism and the viral interferon antagonists encoded by the influenza A virus, Herpes Simplex virus, Measles virus, and MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. In addition to basic molecular virology study, Dr. Kok and his team recently established several novel vaccine platforms and developed novel vaccines such as intradermal influenza vaccine, single-round live pan-Sarbecovirus vaccine, and RNA-scaffold protein vaccines.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
Hong Kong Baptist UniversityBSc
2002The University of Hong KongMMedSc
2006The University of Hong KongPhD
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2023-04-28Silver Award, 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2022 (NanoComplex vaccine)
Research Achievement
IP, Jonathan Daniel
Poon, KM
Cheng, CCV
Poon, WSR
Chan, WM
Cai, J
2021-08-01The University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize 2020-21: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
ZHU, Zheng
2021-02-01Emerging Microbes & Infections 2020 Best Paper Award (1st place): Emerging Microbes & Infections ; eISSN: 2222-1751
Research Achievement
MAK, Long Fung
Wong, LWM
2019-07-01ASV 2019 Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Award: American Society for Virology
Research Achievement
YUEN, Chun Kit
HO, Chau Ha
2017-06-01ASV 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award: American Society for Virology
Research Achievement
IP, Jonathan Daniel
Poon, KM
Cheng, CCV
Poon, WSR
Chan, WM
Cai, J
2023-01-01One of 34 publications highlighted in the "200 years of The Lancet" timeline (Chan JF et al., A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster, Lancet 2020): The Lancet
ISSN: 0140-6736 ; eISSN: 1474-547X
Research Achievement
CAO, Jianli
CHAN, Chun Yiu Chris
LIANG, Ronghui
TANG, Kaiming
XU, Wan
Poon, KM
LAU, Chit Ying
Au, TWK
Chan, CS
Lai, PM
Yuen, CKJ
Sit, KY
Lee, CY
Wang, R
Meng, X
2023-01-01The University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize 2021-22: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
2006-2024Full memberAmerican Society for Virology
2014-2024Full memberState Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases
2011-2019Full memberResearch Centre of infection and Immunity
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