Press Releases and Stories
2020
News
New Method Identifies Adaptive Mutations in Complex Evolving Populations
A research team co-led by a scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a method to study how HIV mutates to escape the immune system in multiple patients, which could inform HIV vaccine design.
2018
Press Releases
HKUST Researchers Discover Fitness Landscape of HIV Envelope Protein That May Help Vaccine Development
An international multi-disciplinary research team led by scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has discovered for the first time a computational framework that could map out the fitness landscape of a crucial protein in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), po