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Professor Malik Peiris wins ‘Life Science Prize’

13 Sep 2021

Professor Malik Peiris and Professor Yuen Kwok-yung from the University of Hong Kong have won the ‘Life Science Prize’ under the 2021 Future Science Prize. It was announced in Beijing that the two University of Hong Kong medical experts, School of Public Health Chair Professor of Virology Malik Peiris and Department of Microbiology Chair Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, had won the award, along with its monetary reward of $ 1 million. The duo was lauded for their discoveries of SARS-CoV-1 as the causative agent for the global SARS outbreak in 2003 and its zoonotic origin, which helped combat Covid-19 and emerging infectious diseases. Prof. Peiris is a Sri Lankan pathologist and virologist, who has long been based in Hong Kong. His research interests include ecology, evolution, pathogenesis, epidemiology of animal-human influenza, and other human respiratory viral infections, authoring over 320 research publications. The Future Science Prize, also dubbed the “Chinese Nobel”, is a privately funded science prize established by a group of renowned scientists and entrepreneurs in 2016 to promote scientific breakthroughs and innovations in the Greater China region including mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The Future Science Prize is awarded under three categories with$ 1 million in prize money for each award – namely the Life Science Prize, Physical Science Prize, and Mathematics and Computer Science Prize. (Agencies)  


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