Faculty

Prof Yu Lung Lau graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1980. He is currently the Chair Professor of Paediatrics and Doris Zimmern Professor in Community Child Health of The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He has been Head of Paediatrics, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Deputy Chief Executive of the Shenzhen Hospital of HKU, President of Hong Kong College of Paediatricians (HKCP) and Asia Society for Paediatric Research.

Prof Lau is a member of the WHO (WPRO) Technical Advisory Group for Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases.  He is a member of the Advisory Panel on COVID-19 Vaccine for the HKSAR Government.   He is the Chair of Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases and initiated universal childhood PCV vaccination as Chair of Working Group on Pneumococcal Vaccination. He helped introduce the universal screening for maternal HIV infection as Chair of the Scientific Committee on AIDS.

Prof Lau established the Asian Primary Immunodeficiencies Referral Network offering free genetic tests for over 2000 patients in Asia and Africa, and is the Founding President of the Asia Pacific Society for Immunodeficiency.

His research interests include genetics, infectious diseases and immunology.  He has published over 400 original papers with h-index of 92 and supervised over 30 graduate students.  He received the Outstanding Researcher Award, the Mrs Gordon Wu Exchange Professorship and the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award, the Second Prize in Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education and the Outstanding Asian Pediatrician Award. He delivered the Guerrero Memorial Lecture, Inaugural Stuart Gan Memorial Lecture, Otto Wolff Lecture and Lata Kumar Lecture.  He was awarded the Justice of Peace in 2020.