4 CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Medical building; press confer- 5 ence on May 11, 2003 announcing results from peptide work with Dr David Ho of Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; the coronavirus discovered by medical researchers; medical staff off to work. DISEASE DETECTIVES The university in a global battle against SARS

The patient, Liu Jianlun, exhibited a raging fever, warned he was highly infectious, and died shortly after, giving no further clues. Puzzled doctors turned to experts at Hong Kong University. 6 7

r Liu’s symptoms were There were also some encouraging similar to avian flu, yet first steps in the search for a cure and The university did not DHKU scientists — some of a vaccine, including collaboration the world’s foremost researchers on with renowned AIDS scientist David the disease — were stumped. The Ho. Within two weeks, that effort keep their potentially deceased’s tissue samples not only had led to the creation of synthetic tested negative for bird influenza, inhibitors with the potential to block lucrative discovery to they did not show traces of any well- the spread of the virus. known virus or bacteria, said Yuen themselves Kwok-yung (MBBS ‘81, MD ‘98), Yet much remains undone. The dis- diseases like measles and mumps. multiply — otherwise their race to Head of Microbiology at HKU’s ease is still not contained, no cure has But Yuen and his colleagues were find a cure would forever be stuck at Faculty of Medicine and Chair of yet been discovered. It is possible, says not convinced, since their test find- the first hurdle. Infectious Diseases. Knowing that the Professor Yuen, that “SARS will be ings didn’t point to that virus as a deceased had come from Guangdong, with us for a long time.” The search causal agent. Risking infection, two researchers — an area experiencing a pneumonia for solutions is a battle that HKU is B J Zheng and Guan Yi — went up Photo: Ming Pao outbreak, “I thought, oh no, here’s fully committing its energies to. “We The virology team was led by Joseph to Guangzhou in order to bring back trouble,” said Professor Yuen. ABOVE: Officials observe a moment of silence at the Joint Symposium on Atypical are however blessed with modern Malik Peiris, an Oxford-trained Sri specimens from SARS patients. But Pneumonia on April 27, 2003. Front row, right to left: Dr Leong Che-hung ( ), medicine which gives us powerful Lankan who in 1997 discovered that the research team was unable to grow So began the university’s continuing Chairman of Hospital Authority; Professor S K Lam ( ), Dean of Faculty of Medicine; tools,” says Vice-Chancellor Lap- the bird flu virus had jumped species the virus from these specimens. battle with a disease that would draw Professor Lap-Chee Tsui ( ), Vice-Chancellor. Chee Tsui. “Knowledge empowers us and infected humans. The team’s first on its intellectual and physical to win this battle.” task was to try and isolate the cell- Then medical technologist Chan resources and involve everyone from denting financial markets around the sequencing and develop a diagnostic destroying agent and grow it. If they Kwok-hung hit upon the idea of a world-famous AIDS researcher to world. There was crushing pressure test. These medical breakthroughs Identifying a Killer couldn’t replicate it, they couldn’t using embryonic monkey kidneys, animal experts and even the staff soc- to avert a global epidemic. occurred within the space of three study it. But it wasn’t easy. Viruses which had been used to successfully cer team. It would put researchers - months - a particularly startling phe- At first, the mystery virus perplexed can only survive and grow in cell cul- cultivate the hepatitis A virus. Using battle-hardened veterans from the HKU researchers scored some quick nomenon considering the human HKU researchers. Trails of clues tures, and this particular mystery virus virus samples from a patient- inciden- 1997 fight against bird influenza - triumphs: they became the first to immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sometimes led in the wrong direction. would not grow in any of the standard tally, the brother-in-law of Dr Liu, on a steep learning curve to identify a identify the coronavirus as the causal wasn’t even identified for well over One of the earliest hypotheses cell lines used for culturing avian and the Chinese professor who had died new disease that was decimating hun- agent of Severe Acute Respiratory two years. amongst the scientific community was influenza viruses. The team had to mysteriously-they were finally able to dreds in Hong Kong, damaging Syndrome (SARS), as well as among that the culprit was the paramyx- find cell cultures which would contain grow the viral agent. economies throughout Asia, and the first to complete its genome ovirus, a common cause of childhood the correct receptors for the virus to

March 27 SARS November 2002 to March 3 Coronavirus Uncovered April 19 Timeline Februrary 2003 Canada Bound Hong Kong U niversity Results Published Mystery in China A 78-year-old woman researchers le d by University research (Coronavirus THE LANCET Outbreak of a respiratory illness dies of SARS in Professor Mali k Peiris as a possible cause of severe The first five months of strikes Guangdong, China, Toronto after having report they be lieve acute respiratory syndrome) is 2003 would provide an infecting over 300 and killing five. visited Hong Kong in SARS is cause d by a published in the international The illness spreads to household February. coronavirus. ordeal for Hong Kong. medical journal, The Lancet. members and health care Here is a chronology of workers. events during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, FEB. MARCH APRIL MAY with highlights of Hong Kong University’s contri- February 21 March 31 April 16 May 11 butions. SARS Lands in Hong Kong Amoy Gardens Shut Genome Decoded Collaboration Medical professor from Hong Kong Department of University becomes third group World-renowned AIDS Guangzhou, China travels to Health issues isolation order to complete genetic sequencing researcher David Ho, with Hong Kong, stays in the for residents of Amoy of SARS coronavirus, joining university scientists, Metropole Hotel in Kowloon, and Gardens, Block E. University Canadian researchers and U.S. announce promising infects others on the ninth floor. engineers would later Centers for Disease Control and experiments with peptides that may block the discover the "chimney effect" Prevention. SARS coronavirus from propagating. that led to the rapid spread. 8 9

Andy Chan thought he was Fifteen already on the Hours SARS battlefield. In the life of a SARS scare As assistant professor of environ- mental engineering, he was studying building structural flaws that could have contributed to the Amoy Gardens outbreak. But he was also warden of student residence Wei Lun Hall, and the epidemic hit home when a resident came down with SARS-like symptoms. Chan’s account of the April 17 scare follows.

10 pm Student from Wei Lun Hall runs a fever, goes to Queen Mary hospital. 12 noon Chan gets a call from the student, who has been identified as a possible SARS case: I immediately called the SARS hotline and Dr The student was also worried about his girlfriend. [Kitty] Chan to tell them about the case. Then we The hospital was demanding she get checked too. gathered everyone - about 30 students - on the The doctor himself called to say the student floor and told them what was going on. We tried The team went into overdrive, would be held at the hospital. to identify those who might have had particular- Entire floor is cor- ly close contact with the student. I must say, the ABOVE: Dr Frederick Leung ( ) and his Midnight to 2 am staying late and arriving early, doned off. Students start extensive cleaning. Chan students remained calm. Worried, but calm. team of scientists mapped out the genetic sequence of the coronavirus. seven days a week,sometimes puts up a hall notice telling all tutors to inform working until sunrise. their corresponding floors. 5 am The University Health The next step was to prove what It turned out that all but four students on the floor Service team arrives. Everyone is the researchers had in their test tubes had close contact with the student. Earlier in the given a checkup. UHS tries to deter- was actually the virus causing SARS. of a member of the coronavirus family the virus to interested laboratories week, there was a hightable graduation dinner and mine who had the most contact with This was accomplished by comparing - but he wasn’t sure. After all, scien- worldwide to facilitate research. almost everyone had gone out, so this more than the student. blood samples of currently sick tists knew the coronavirus to be a rel- justified our quarantine. patients with those of Dr Liu’s broth- atively weak virus, the cause of com- Cracking the Genetic Code er-in-law and another victim. In the mon colds. It was only after Leo victims’ blood, they looked for anti- Poon, another member of the team, It wasn’t enough just to know the bodies - the body's reaction to an began isolating genetic fragments and enemy. The scientists had to be able 5 am to 9 am Chan contacts four students, who were We gave everyone on the floor N95 invader - that showed how the running genetic sequencing tests that to find it in the bloodstream of a away from Wei Lun at the time, and orders them to return facemasks. We arranged for the four immune system was activated to the team was certain that it was the victim. They developed the first sig- immediately. Two initially refused, but relented after Chan talks students with no close contact with fight disease. Since different afflic- coronavirus. Evidently, this variant nificant weapon against SARS by cre- with their parents. the student to move to other floors. tions produced different antibodies, was a new member of the family. “It’s ating an eight-hour diagnostic test We also arranged for the possibly the researchers knew that if the anti- not every day you find a new virus,” for the virus. But it came amid 9 am The Estates Office arrives for extensive cleaning of the infected student's girlfriend to move bodies in all blood samples were the Professor Peiris told the South China mounting fears as the disease claimed whole residence hall. Through this, the harried Chan is kept into his room, after sealing off a toilet same, it would indicate a single Morning Post. more victims. On the same day HKU busy on the phone, in constant touch with the University Health and shower just for her. disease. announced its diagnostic test, Hong Service, the suspected student's family, fellow wardens, and The team’s findings were later backed Kong officials closed schools for nine reporters. We canceled an inter-floor soccer com- When all eight samples tested similar, up by the United States Centers for days and quarantined more than petition, and arranged to bring in the team knew they were one step Disease Control and Prevention 1,000 people who’d had close contacts Noon The Queen Mary doctor called and said he no longer breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some closer to real answers. That was when (CDC) and the World Health with infected people. thought the student had SARS. As a precaution they were going tutors and I went out and got some “the real excitement began,” Professor Organisation (WHO). Not only did to keep him hospitalised. Chan is kept busy handling calls, writ- additional noodles and bananas. Peiris said. The scientists now knew HKU's discovery bring the medical It was clear that that the HKU doc- ing memos to other wardens and taking the temperature of they had the virus that caused the community closer to pinpointing the tors needed to develop better tests everyone on the floor. disease. But exactly what was it? cause of the disease, but the identifi- and start work on a vaccine. To do cation of the coronavirus was done “in that, they had to crack the genetic Pathologist John Nicholls took the record time,” said David Heymann, code. Vice-Chancellor Tsui, a genome NOTE: Chan responded to the case according to a protocol infected cells, sliced them up and WHO’s Executive Director of expert, called in the animal experts: that had been developed for such emergencies by the HKU examined them under a powerful Communicable Diseases. HKU did Frederick Leung, Dean of the Faculty Task Force on SARS, headed by Dr Kitty Chan, Director of the electron microscope. What he saw not keep its potentially lucrative find of Science and Associate Professor in University Health Service. resembled the tell-tale spiky crown to itself, choosing instead to donate the Department of Zoology, and his 10 11 A New Mission for team of ten students. They were particularly suited for the job, having WHO experts consulted university mapped a number of pig and chicken Dr David Ho viruses, including the foot and engineers on identifying ‘at-risk’ mouth virus, and developed vaccine Several against them. buildings in Hong Kong peptides David Ho ( ), of the Aaron Diamond Dr Leung’s team confronted a formi- AIDS Research Center in New York, is actually dable task. They started with only a first puzzle pieces together faster. rats - did not explain why 70% of the showed that such air clouds favoured widely credited with pioneering a “cock- protected 182-unit sequence of base pairs, the Then on April 13, the news came that infections were concentrated around the section around Flats 7 and 8. tail” therapy for the treatment of AIDS. the cells building blocks of DNA and founda- a team from the British Columbia Flats 7 and 8 in Block E. Had the He has set himself a new challenge: from the tion of all living things. Most coron- Cancer agency had completed genetic virus been transmitted in the ways On April 17, the government issued working with HKU to design aviruses have 30,000 base pairs. Their mapping of the virus. Two days later, suggested, infections would have been a report on the Amoy Gardens out- SARS more evenly distributed, Lee noted. break. Though the report concluded a drug that would block challenge was like putting together a the United States Centers for Disease virus massive jigsaw puzzle - with the Control and Prevention (CDC) also that a faulty sewage system was the spread of SARS. His clock ticking away. announced they had mapped the His group created computer simula- responsible for the outbreak, part of own description of the work, genome. It was a blow to the Leung tions of conditions in the residents’ its findings concurred with the HKU from a May 11, 2003 press conference The first step was “landing” onto team, who felt they were close to homes. There were multiple variables team’s research, particularly on the at Hong Kong University: the genome. In general, scientists first cracking the code. “I just wanted to to account for: windflow temperature chimney effect. find genes that match other known go home,” said Carol Chan, one of and humidity differentials both inside “Since three weeks ago, my col- viral sequences from other species. the students. But Dr Leung reminded and outside the block; with fans on or WHO experts fully agreed with the leagues, including Dr Zhang [Linqi], However, the first 182 base pair his team that there could be differ- off, and windows open or closed. findings and consulted the HKU showed that this virus was so new ences between the viruses in Hong They examined the block floor by team in their efforts to identify other have been working hard on two specific and only had about a 5% match with Kong and Canada, and more than floor and surmised that the building’s “at-risk” buildings in Hong Kong. construction design, combined with Dr Lee’s team concluded that while areas. One is to make vaccines with the team here [HKU] all known sequences. It was a one sequence might be needed to get “maddening process,” said Dr Leung, the virus under control. “Finish what weather conditions, contributed to similar incidents could happen in … but we also decided to focus on one treatment, to see if as “you just didn’t know what piece we started,” he told his team. On the virus’s spread. other buildings, chances of the same fits with what.” April 16, the HKU team finished magnitude are reduced since the inci- we could specifically design something that would block mapping the virus and uploaded it One hypothesis was that the virus dent was a combination of unfavor- the SARS virus. This comes about because of our experi- As Dr Leung and his team laboured, into the Gene Bank at the National was ejected from a severely-contami- able factors. the situation in Hong Kong and Center for Biotechnology nated bathroom through the exhaust ence with the HIV virus ... Due to the good work of Richard beyond grew increasingly grim. By Information in the United States. fan into the re-entrant area of the Taking Body Temperatures Kao and Leo Poon - they have been slaving away in the April 2, SARS had infected 2,200 Later, both the Canadian and US building. With no proper ventilation people in 17 countries, with 78 fatali- groups edited their sequence to match to disperse it, the virus-laden air slow- Meanwhile, another HKU team was lab day and night to test inhibitors on the SARS virus (this ties. Hong Kong officials closed the HKU sequences. ly rose within the lightwell through a hard at work developing a device that schools for another two weeks as local “chimney effect” and entered other could swiftly test body temperatures. not on animals, but the very first test on tissue culture) to cases topped 700. The WHO issued a The Amoy Gardens Puzzle apartments through open windows. Since there is as yet no quick, fool- see if peptides block the ability of the SARS virus to get travel warning advising people to Natural wind-flow simulations proof diagnostic test to detect SARS, avoid Hong Kong and southern While all this unfolded, members of body temperature readings remain a inside the cell - we are pleased with the result. Several China. Swiss authorities barred Hong the university's Faculty of chief symptom indicator. It was vital peptides actually protected the cells from the SARS virus; Kong traders from attending a well- Engineering were trying to find out to establish a fast method to check known jewelry exhibition. how the virus spread so rapidly at the huge numbers of people moving the concept is validated. There is obviously lots more work Amoy Gardens - a Kowloon housing “We have to find in and out of Hong Kong. ahead, but it's a nice first step. From here there will have to Dr Leung and the genetic-sequencing estate which saw over 300 SARS team realised that this coronavirus infections and resulted in more than the cause.” be many more experiments. Hopefully, we can push this displayed only the barest similarities 35 deaths. It fueled widespread fears - Professor Yuen Kwok-yung with other viruses in its class. It was that the virus was not containable. forward to testing on animals some time.” something no one had ever seen Were buildings in other densely pop- before. The team went into overdrive, ulated areas of Hong Kong similarly arriving early and staying late, seven vulnerable? days a week, sometimes toiling till sunrise. The HKU team included specialists in mechanical engineering, building It was a steep learning curve for services, fluid dynamics and air pollu- Leung’s weary students, who said the tion. They sought to “provide num- research helped them develop new bers, not conjecture,” said Joseph Lee, techniques in genetic sequencing. Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. They discovered how to get more But initially there was much conjec- Ribonucleic Acid, or RNA, from virus ture about the Amoy Gardens out- samples so they could do more tests break. Two popular theories - virus- with less material. They also found transporting urine from neighbouring new ways to “launch” extracts of RNA construction sites, or germ-carrying from the virus, which helped fit the 12 People from the universi- ty community join in the Using technology originally devel- to use infra-red technology to create ture differed from internal core tem- April 18 “We Are With oped for testing construction quality a small device sensitive enough to peratures that more traditional ther- You” rally in the Rayson in the building industry, the team, pick up passers-by who were running mometers measure. To overcome the Huang Theatre. which included C R Kumana, Chair above-normal temperatures. glitch they enlisted the help of the of Clinical Pharmacology and university staff soccer team. The Therapeutics in the Department of At first, recalled Dr Chan, things researchers tracked the sweaty sports- Medicine, Chan Lung-Sang of the were "frustrating." The team had men's temperature decline from side Department of Earth Sciences, and high failure rates because camera angles, discovering that they could Pro-Vice-Chancellor C F Lee, tried snapshots of body-surface tempera- get more accurate readings from around the temple and ear region Standing Fast, Reaching Out than from the body. The team is now BELOW: Engineers Dennis Y C expanding its work, on a Department Leung ( ) and Andy Chan of Health-supported project with the As SARS raged, HKU took steps to maintain a semblance of normality - and community ( ) investigated the Amoy They sought to Tsinghua University's Research Gardens outbreak by modeling provide numbers, Institute at Shenzhen, verifying the the buildings’ toilets and pipes. application of infra-red thermogra- Fighting Fear With The Truth Containing The Enemy not conjecture phy at Hong Kong's border check- points. It was a schoolboy’s April’s fool joke that no one Late in March, HKU had its first case of SARS. Kitty laughed at. The prank, a website rumor that Hong Chan, Director of the University Health Service, and Pursuit of a Cure Kong would be sealed off to contain the epidemic, Registrar Henry Wai formed a group, later known as the sparked panic throughout the territory. People shoved HKU Task Force on SARS, to coordinate the university’s Back in the labs, Dr Leung's gene- into supermarkets and emptied the shelves. response. Its chief roles, said Dr Chan, were to imple- sequencing team was happy to have ment guidelines and act as a channel of communication, The incident made it clear that the SARS outbreak mapped the SARS genome in near- both within the university and with the world. was creating a ripe environment for rumor and hysteria. record time, with fewer people than the North American teams and less Cecilia Chan, Director of HKU’s Centre on Behavioral With each suspected case, the HKU Task Force sophisticated equipment. But other Health, knew that Hong Kong needed a platform where contacted the patient, the patient’s doctor and the challenges loomed, like improving people could get reliable information - and needed Department of Health to get the most accurate details. the diagnostic method for SARS, and it fast. Group members mapped the patient’s routine and con- making faster and more accurate tacts on campus and notified the university community. Together with Albert Chau, Director of the General tests. Above all, the researchers were With the Estates Office, they supervised disinfection of Education Unit, she set up a website and telephone acutely aware of the need to develop campus buildings where the patient had been. a vaccine. The coronavirus belongs to hotline to distribute information about SARS. The team a class of RNA viruses, which, like also established a phoneline tutorial service for home- Those who had been in contact with suspected cases HIV, are notorious for their rapid bound students, amid the Hong Kong-wide shutdown were given on-site screening, temperature checks and mutations. That will complicate the of schools. Thus was born the “We Are With You” referrals for further examination such as X-rays, if search for a vaccine. Movement. Wherever they turned in the university deemed necessary. The task force also asked close community, the Chan-Chau team found help. “No contacts to take 10 days’ sick leave, a policy later man- Help came in the form of AIDS one turned us down,” said Chau. “Everyone wanted dated by the Department of Health. researcher David Ho. The university to help.” already enjoyed a close relationship with Dr Ho. Last July HKU and the Professor Chan and Dr Chau later sought to turn Keeping Classes Going the SARS acronym on its head. It didn’t have to mean Aaron Diamond Aids Research The SARS outbreak forced the university to close from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Instead, it Center - where Ho is Chief March 29 to April 14. But teaching did not stop. “This Executive - jointly set up an AIDS could mean: does not mean that learning will be suspended,” said institute at HKU's medical complex. John Spinks, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Academic and This May, Dr Ho, prompted by what Sacrifice Sustainable he saw as similar characteristics Appreciation Actions for Student Affairs, in an e-mail to staff and students. “We between the SARS virus and HIV, e- Reflection Rejuvenation of are proud of the fact that HKU students are independent mailed the university asking what he Support Society learners,” he added. “This is an opportunity to demon- could do to help. strate this.” In the first week of April, an online program offering news and information about SARS and tutoring services During the closure period, websites and videolinks Dr Ho, who was named Time maga- replaced blackboards and pointers as primary teaching zine's 1996 "Man of the Year" for to secondary students began operation. Some 200 stu- pioneering the use of drugs which dent volunteers were taking the first calls from worried tools. Students did their assignments by e-mail, occa- inhibit the spread of the HIV virus, parents and students seeking help with assignments. sionally sending a quick review question to their univer- flew to Hong Kong with a team that The volunteers were trained by faculty members on sity teachers lurking in cyber chatrooms. ways to solve callers’ problems in the shortest time included Beijing native and immu- According to the Office of Student Affairs, well over nologist Zhang Linqi. The team and to offer referral information for tougher cases. half of the university employed information and com- believed that they could use their munication technology (ICT) techniques during the experience with HIV to make The “We Are With You” Movement also produced inhibitors which would block SARS videos with information on SARS, where experts of shutdown. interaction. various backgrounds provided advice on coping. In hospitals,labs a nd offices around Hong Kong, many of our members 15 laboured long and mightily in fighting against SARS.The examples are numerous, and include: Professor Tam Siu-lun, John ( ) Dr Yeoh Eng-kiong ( ) Dr Ho Shiu-wei ( ) ➊ Dr Lo Wing-lok ( ) (PhD ‘90) (MBBS ‘71) (MBBS ‘83) (MBBS ‘79) Department of Microbiology, CUHK Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Chief Executive of Hospital Authority President of HK Medical Association

➋ Dr Kenneth Tsang ( ) Associate Professor of Department of Medicine; Physician-in-charge of SARS wards in Queen Mary Hospital.

Malik Peiris ( ) (centre) flanked (left to right) by Guan Yi ( ), Yuen Kwok-yung ( ), ➌ Dr Leong Che-hung John Nicholls ( ), Chan Kwok-hung ( ) , Leo Poon ( ). ( ) (MBBS ‘62) In lab tests Dr Zhang experimented effects, causing birth defects and Chairman of Hospital Authority with creating synthethic peptides, or the bursting of red blood cells. ➍ protein inhibitors, that could block Dr Seto Wing-hong the ability of the SARS virus to get The laundry list of challenges to ( ) inside cell cultures. To his delight, he be met remains dauntingly long. Chairman of Infection Control, discovered several peptides actually Uppermost on researchers’ minds: Queen Mary Hospital; Honorary did so, gumming up the process so improving diagnostic tests so that Professor of HKU Department of the virus was unable to fuse with cell speedier and more accurate results Microbiology cultures. can be obtained. Making anti-viral drugs specifically designed to combat Since tests have yet to be conducted SARS. Creating a vaccine. “All this ➊ ❷ ➌ ➍ on animals, let alone humans, scien- cannot be done without money, polit- ➎ Dr Ko Wing-man tists are still cautious about the poten- ical conviction and support from the ( ) tial applications. Still, they hope the overall community,” says S K Lam (MBBS ‘81) discovery will lead to the creation of (MBBS ‘67; MD ‘75), Dean of Director of Professional Services “designer drugs,” said Professor Peiris, Medicine. “We are dealing with a dis- and Affairs, Hospital Authority; that can “target the vulnerable stage” ease without textbooks or journals,” Acting Chief Executive of Hospital of the SARS virus’s life cycle. At pre- he said, “we are writing the chapters Authority when Dr Ho Siu-wei sent, the most effective drug in the as the disease unfolds itself.” suffered from SARS. anti-SARS arsenal is the anti-viral drug Ribavarin, which was not ➏ Professor Leung Ping- designed to treat SARS, but hepatitis Reporting by Journalism students: chung ( ) and other respiratory diseases. Taken Tim LeeMaster, Patricia Cheng and (MBBS ‘66, MS ‘81, ➎ ➏ ➐ in large doses, it has serious side Wong Chun-fai HonDSocSc 2001) Chairman, Institute of Chinese Medicine Management Committee; Professor of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Related Websites CUHK ➐ University SARS Web site http://www.hku.hk/sars/ Professor Sung Jao-yiu, Joseph ( ) Faculty of Medicine http://www.hku.hk/facmed/ (MBBS ‘83) Yu Chun Keung Medical Library http://www.lib.hku.hk/medlib/sars/ Chairman of Medicine and Clinical Trials Centre http://www.hku.hk/ctc/ Therapeutics and Associate Dean of Faculty of Medicine, We Are With You Movement http://www.hku.hk/gened/withu/ CUHK; Recently appointed by Mapping Atypical Pneumonia (SARS) http://facarts.hku.hk/geog/sars/ HKU as Honorary Professor of Dr Fung Hong ( ) Professor Chung Sheung-chee ( ) (MBBS ‘81) (Science student ‘73-‘74) Analysis of SARS data http://hkustasc.hku.hk/users/plhyu/ the Faculty of Medicine SARS/home.php Hospital Chief Executive of Prince of Wales Hospital; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, CUHK Cluster Chief Executive (New Territories East) SPACE We Shall Overcome http://www.soul.hkuspace.org/ Both Dr Ho Shiu-wei and Dr Fung wellwishes/msg/special/page1.htm Hong were infected with SARS and later recovered. SARS Fund (Donation details) http://www.hku.hk/sarsfund/ Photos: Ming Pao