Current appointments

• Chair Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, National Chung Hsing University
• Chairman, Coronavirus Study Group, International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses
• Editor-in-Chief: eMicrobe

 

Contact

• Address: Room 11-30, School of Life Sciences Building, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xingda Road, South District, Taichung 402, Taiwan.
• Email: pcywoo@hku.hk

Research interests

• Emerging infectious disease
• Novel microbe discovery
• Microbial omics

Selected fellowships and awards

• Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Glasg)
• Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship (Hong Kong, 2015)
• Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology
• Distinguished Talent Lecture Foundation’s Distinguished Talent Lecture 傑出人才發展基金會-傑出人才講座 (Taiwan, 2023)

Selected publications

• Woo PCY, Li JHC, Tang WM, Yuen KY. Acupuncture mycobacteriosis. New England Journal of Medicine 2001; 345: 842-843.
• Woo PCY, Wong SSY, Lum PNL, Hui WT, Yuen KY. Cell-wall-deficient bacteria and culture-negative febrile episodes in bone-marrow-transplant recipients. Lancet 2001; 357: 675-679.
• Woo PCY, Lau SKP, Tsoi HW, Chan KH, Wong BHL, Che XY, Tam VKP, Tam SCF, Cheng VCC, Hung IFN, Wong SSY, Zheng BJ, Guan Y, Yuen KY. Relative rates of non-pneumonic SARS coronavirus infection and SARS coronavirus pneumonia. Lancet 2004; 363: 841-845.
• Woo PCY, Lau SKP, Teng JLL, Que TL, Yung RWH, Luk WK, Lai RWM, Hui WT, Wong SSY, Yau HH, Yuen KY. Association of Laribacter hongkongensis in community-acquired gastroenteritis with travel and eating fish: a multicentre case-control study. Lancet 2004; 363: 1941-1947.
• Woo PCY, Lau SKP, Chu CM, Chan KH, Tsoi HW, Huang Y, Wong BHL, Poon RWS, Cai JJ, Luk WK, Poon LLM, Wong SSY, Guan Y, Malik JSM, Yuen KY. Characterization and complete genome sequence of a novel coronavirus, coronavirus HKU1, from patients with pneumonia. Journal of Virology 2005; 79: 884-895.
• Woo PCY*, Lin AWC, Lau SKP, Yuen KY. Acupuncture transmitted infections. British Medical Journal 2010; 340: 1151-1152.
• Woo PCY, Lau SKP, Wong BHL, Fan RYY, Wong AYP, Zhang AJX, Wu Y, Choi GKY, Li KSM, Hui J, Wang M, Zheng BJ, Chan KH, Yuen KY. Feline morbillivirus, a previously undescribed paramyxovirus associated with tubulointerstitial nephritis in domestic cats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 2012; 109: 5435-5440.
• Yeung ML, Teng JLL, Jia L, Zhang C, Huang C, Cai JP, Zhou R, Chan KH, Zhao H, Zhu L, Siu KL, Fung SY, Yung S, Chan TM, To KK, Chan JF, Cai Z, Lau SKP, Chen Z, Jin DY, Woo PCY*, Yuen KY. Soluble ACE2-mediated cell entry of SARS-CoV-2 via interaction with proteins related to the renin-angiotensin system. Cell 2021; 184: 2212-2228.
• Lau SKP, Fan RYY, Zhu L, Li KSM, Wong ACP, Luk HKH, Wong EYM, Lam CSF, Lo GCS, Fung J, He Z, Fok FCH, Au-Yeung RKH, Zhang L, Kok KH, Yuen KY, Woo PCY*. Isolation of MERS-related coronavirus from lesser bamboo bats that uses DPP4 and infects human-DPP4-transgenic mice. Nature Communications 2021; 12: 216.
• Woo PCY*, de Groot RJ, Haagmans B, Lau SKP, Neuman BW, Perlman S, Sola I, van der Hoek L, Wong ACP, Yeh SH. Coronaviridae. In Virus Taxonomy. ICTV Report Chapters: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses; 2023.
• Wang CS, Hsiao Y, Tsou CH, Tsang CC, Lau SKP, Woo PCY*. Chatbots are just as good as professors in both factual recall and clinical scenario analysis: Emergence of a new tool in clinical microbiology and infectious disease. Journal of Infection 2024; 89: 106274.
• Tsang CC, Zhao C, Liu Y, Lin KPK, Tang JYM, Cheng KO, Chow FWN, Yao W, Chan KF, Poon SNL, Wong KYC, Zhou L, Mak OTN, Lee JCY, Zhao S, Ngan AHY, Wu AKL, Fung KSC, Que TL, Teng JLL, Schnieders D, Yiu SM, Lau SKP, Woo PCY*. Automatic identification of clinically important Aspergillus species by artificial intelligence-based image recognition: proof-of-concept study. Emerging Microbes and Infections 2025; 14: 2434573.
• Woo PCY*. Rigorous analysis of microbes and infectious diseases using an expanding range of robust in silico technologies. eMicrobe 2025; 1: 1.