PanopticAI developed an AI health monitoring app using the camera on a smartphone or tablet to monitor the user’s vital signs such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure etc. A pilot scheme has been deployed to 10 to 20 elderly homes across the city.
(From left) Prof. Yeung King-Lun, Director of HKUST-CIL Joint Laboratory of Innovative Environmental Health Technologies (HKUST-CIL Lab); Mr. Hamilton Hung, Chief Marketing Officer of Chiaphua Industries Limited; Prof. Joseph Kwan and Prof. Han Wei, Associate Directors of HKUST-CIL Lab; and a research team member have improved the formula of the antimicrobial coating MAP-1, launched at the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, pushing the coating’s durability from three months to five years.
The research team found that despite the number of epitopes encompassing Omicron mutations are nonetheless notably higher than other virus variants, Omicron, like other variants, is still unlikely to escape human's T cell responses.
The new platform, COVIDep, periodically pools SARS-CoV-2 sequence data and compares with experimentally-determined epitopes of SARS-CoV, to provide scientists around the world an up-to-date set of vaccine target recommendations for COVID-19.
