Professor Raven Kok 郭健恒
Professor Raven Kok 郭健恒
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.
Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
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Hong Kong Baptist University | BSc | |
2002 | The University of Hong Kong | MMedSc |
2006 | The University of Hong Kong | PhD |
Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
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2023-04-28 | Silver 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 | 2021-08-01 | The University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize 2020-21: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement |
ZHU, Zheng | 2021-02-01 | Emerging Microbes & Infections 2020 Best Paper Award (1st place): Emerging Microbes & Infections ; eISSN: 2222-1751 | Research Achievement |
MAK, Long Fung Wong, LWM | 2019-07-01 | ASV 2019 Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Award: American Society for Virology | Research Achievement |
YUEN, Chun Kit HO, Chau Ha | 2017-06-01 | ASV 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award: American Society for Virology | Research Achievement |
IP, Jonathan Daniel Poon, KM Cheng, CCV Poon, WSR Chan, WM Cai, J | 2023-01-01 | One 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 | 2023-01-01 | The University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize 2021-22: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement |
Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
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2006-2024 | Full member | American Society for Virology |
2014-2024 | Full member | State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases |
2011-2019 | Full member | Research Centre of infection and Immunity |
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