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SUMMARY:St Mary’s I & I Seminar Series: Dr Michael Chan – ‘Tropism of
  SARS-CoV-2 and variants in human respiratory tract’
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Spring Series \nof the St Mary’s Infection & 
 Immunity Seminars (hybrid)\n(special lecture – Thurs 25th May)\n\n\nDr M
 ichael Chan – University of Hong Kong\n \n\nBiography:\nDr. Michael Cha
 n ‘s main research interests are the virus-host interaction and pathogen
 esis of influenza virus and coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2\, SARS-CoV and MERS-Co
 V) using ex vivo human respiratory explant cultures and in vitro well-diff
 erentiated human respiratory epithelial cells. Major focuses of his curren
 t work are: (1) Risk assessment of influenza virus and coronavirus using e
 x vivo explants and in vitro respiratory epithelial cells model. (2) Mecha
 nism of lung injury upon severe influenza virus and coronavirus infection 
 (3) Human nasal\, nasopharyngeal\, airway and distal lung organoids develo
 pment and risk assessment for emerging infectious diseases (4) Role of hum
 an distal airway stem cells in respiratory epithelium regeneration upon in
 fluenza H5N1 virus\, SARS-CoV-2\, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV infection. (5) Rol
 e of mesenchymal stromal cells and exosomes/microvesicles in reverse influ
 enza H5N1 associated acute lung injury (6) Novel therapeutic options for s
 evere human influenza virus and coronavirus infection\, e.g. COVID-19.\nDr
 . Michael Chan received his PhD degree in Medical Science from the Chinese
  University of Hong Kong\, followed by the post-doctoral training in influ
 enza virus and infectious diseases with Prof. Malik Peiris at the Universi
 ty of Hong Kong since 2004.\nDr. Chan is ranked by Essential Science Indic
 ator (ISI) as a “top 1% most-cited international scientist” in the wor
 ld since 2009. He has published over 120 manuscripts\; many of them are in
  high impact journals including Lancet Respiratory Medicine\, Nature\, Nat
 ure Medicine\, Nature Microbiology\, PNAS\njoin us in person:\nCockburn LT
 \, QEQM building\, St Mary’s Campus\nand online via teams:\nClick here t
 o join the meeting\nMeeting ID: 383 516 857 555\nPasscode: GQhFPS 
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/161678/st-marys-i-i-seminar-series-dr
 -michael-chan-tropism-of-sars-cov-2-and-variants-in-human-respiratory-trac
 t/
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LOCATION:Cockburn LT\, QEQM building\, St Mary's Campus\, Queen Elizabeth T
 he Queen Mother Wing\, St Mary's Campus\, Imperial College London\, London
 \, W2 1NY\, United Kingdom
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