Francois Jean
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Francois has two collaborators at the University of Hong Kong: Dr Richard Kao and Dr Malik Peiris.
Dr Peiris is receiving financial support for his postdoctoral fellow working on a influenza A project funded by Francois’ CIHR team grant on Functional Infectomics of influenza A virus.
Dr. Kao is working with Francois’ lab member, Meera Raj (PhD candidate) on the SARS-CoV biology. Francois has already published with Richard on SARS-CoV in the journal Biol Chem: paper of the Year in 2006. Other projects are in progress on the SARS-coV.
Enclosed is a great document on Influenza A virus biology including Dr Peiris and other International collaborators. See also the following link for the paper of the year 2006 published with our collaborator Dr Kao.
http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/BC.2007.116
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35203.html
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcthisweek/2007/07sep13.html
