Yuen Kwok-Yung(袁國勇), Henry Fok Professor and Chair in Infectious Diseases of the Department of Microbiology at The University of Hong Kong, is a physician, virologist, microbiologist, and medical and scientific researcher. He has published extensively on microbes and emerging infectious diseases. His team attended to the first SARS patients and isolated the virus from their clinical specimens in 2003, and in 2020, Yuen Kwok-Yung led the team to discover the person-to-person transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2005, he was appointed by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China to serve as the founding co-director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at HKU, China’s first State Key Laboratory outside the mainland.