- Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, HKU
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences
Professor Malik Peiris joined The University of Hong Kong in 1995, and is now Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong. He co-directs the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory and the WHO SARS-CoV-2 reference laboratory at The University of Hong Kong. Currently, he serves on many Hong Kong and WHO advisory committees, including the WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on COVID-19. In recognition of his research contributions, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2006). He has received the Mahathir Science Award, Akademi Sains, Malaysia (2007); a Silver Bauhinia Star, Hong Kong SAR (2008); the Medal "100 Years of Virology" of the D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (2009); and the title Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Republic of France (2017). He was elected a Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences, USA (2017), and awarded the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (2021), Future Science Prize Award (Life Sciences) (2021).
