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Special Funding to Support SARS Research Proposals
List of Supported Projects
Proposal No.
Proposal Title
Principal
Investigator
CityU 1511/03E Development and Site Verification of a Dr Albert Ting
Virus Cleaner (Intentionally Designed Pat So
for SARS Triage Wards)
Amount
Duration
Supported Supported
($)
(months)
560,200
9
CUHK 4507/03M To Develop a Clinical Prognostic
Prof Nelson
Profile for Severe Disease Course in
Leung Sang
SARS with Serum Cytokines
Tang
Measurements and Genomic Markers A Retrospective Case Control Study
362,000
12
CUHK 4508/03M Quantitative Analysis of Plasma Viral
and Host RNA in Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome
Prof Dennis
Yuk Ming Lo
415,800
12
CUHK 4527/03M Development of Specific
Immunotherapeutics and rapid
immunodiagnostics for severe acute
respiratory syndrome
Prof Pak Leong
Lim
400,000
12
CUHK 4532/03M A Population-based Study on the
Prevalence of SARS-associated
Coronavirus Infection in Hong Kong
Prof Francis Ka
Leung Chan
1,330,000
12
CUHK 4536/03M Establishment of a SARS Coronavirus Prof Mary Miu
Protein/Peptide Library and an
Yee Waye
Antibody Library as Common
Platforms for Biological and Medical
Applications
800,000
12
PolyU 5520/03M Development of Sensitive Diagnostic
Assays for Human Coronavirus
Causing SARS
Dr Shea Ping
Yip
552,000
12
HKUST 6505/03M Identify viral epitopes for
Prof Zhihong
immunoglobulins from SARS patients Guo
652,000
12
HKUST 6510/03M Development of anti-SARS
therapeutics using multiple molecular
strategies
552,000
12
Prof Chun
Liang
Proposal No.
Proposal Title
Principal
Investigator
HKU 7529/03M Development of monoclonal antibodies Prof Kar Neng
against SARS-associated coronavirus: Lai
specific targeting for early diagnosis
and future treatment
Amount
Duration
Supported Supported
($)
(months)
750,000
12
HKU 7531/03M Mechanism of SARS-coronavirus
pathogenesis - identification of viral
genes implicated in immune
dysregulation
Dr Allan Sik
Yin Lau
512,000
12
HKU 7532/03M Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay
(ELISA) – based antigen test for rapid
diagnosis of severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS)
Dr Susanna
Kar Pui Lau
500,000
12
HKU 7542/03M Genetic variation of the SARS
coronavirus: molecular epidemiology
and antigenic variation
Prof Joseph
Sriyal Malik
Peiris
1,012,000
12
HKU 7543/03M Rapid molecular diagnosis of SARS
coronavirus
Dr Leo Lit Man
Poon
450,000
12
HKU 7551/03M A study of antiviral peptides targeting
spike and matrix proteins of SARS
coronavirus
Dr Bojian
Zheng
652,000
12
500,000
12
HKU 7553/03M Rapid accurate diagnostic assay for the Dr Frederick
SARS coronavirus
Chi Ching
Leung
Total:
10,000,000