Malik Peiris
Bio
Malik Peiris is currently Professor of Virology at the School of Public Health at The University of Hong Kong. He is a clinical and public health virologist, with an interest in emerging virus disease at the animal-human interface, including influenza and coronaviruses (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2). In 2003, he identified the novel coronavirus that caused SARS and contributed to understanding its origins, diagnosis and control. More recently, he works on zoonotic, seasonal and pandemic influenza, MERS and COVID-19 using a One Health approach and is interested in drivers of virus spill-over at the animal human-interface and interventions to reduce spill-over risk. He has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London and as a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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