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Place of Birth: Sri Lanka
About Malik Peiris
- Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris (???), ( ??????), ( ??????), FRS, Légion d'Honneur, was born on 10 November 1949, in Sri Lanka.
- He is referred to in scientific publications and media reports as JSM Peiris, JS Peiris, Joseph Peiris and, most commonly, as Malik Peiris.
- His close family and friends prefer to use the middle name Sriyal.
- He is a distinguished old boy of St.
- Anthony's College Kandy and later studied medicine at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
- This was followed by post graduate study at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK, leading to the award of the DPhil degree.
- After further work in the UK and Sri Lanka, he founded the clinical diagnostic and public health virology laboratory at Queen Mary Hospital, which is part of the University of Hong Kong, in 1995.
- Malik Peiris and his team of scientists and doctors were strategically placed to face the challenges of the Avian influenza virus outbreak, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus outbreak, and the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus outbreak.
- Original research carried out by the Hong Kong laboratories have made major contributions to the knowledge of the causative viruses of these diseases, and the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the diseases that these viruses cause.
- During the years 2003-2004, Malik Peiris was credited with authoring the highest number of high impact publications in the scientific world. He and his co-workers have published more than 600 scientific papers in a research career spanning more than 35 years and are credited with 32 scientific patents relating to diagnosis of viral infections.
- He currently holds the Tam Wah-Ching Professorship, Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences, University of Hong Kong, where he continues to lead ground breaking research with a particular interest in newly emerging virus diseases at the animal-human interface.
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