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    PEOPLE & POINTS

    Sep 23, 2021 3 minutes

    LAUREATE IN LIFE SCIENCES

    Yuen Kwok-Yung, a 65-year-old professor at the University of Hong Kong, won the Future Science Prize in life sciences on September 12 for his discovery of SARS-CoV-1 as the causative agent of the global SARS outbreak in 2003. He shares the honor with his colleague Sriyal Malik Peiris.

    Yuen’s team treated the first SARS patients in Hong Kong and managed to isolate SARS-CoV-1 from their clinical specimens in 2003, proving critical to the design of diagnostic tests and disease characterization.

    In addition, Yuen’s continued studies on SARS-like viruses predicted the potential re-emergence

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