Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, China. He received his M.B.B.S. from HKU in 2005 and underwent postgraduate specialist training at the Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, to become Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom, the Hong Kong College of Pathologists, and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He joined the Department of Microbiology at his alma mater as Honorary Assistant Professor in 2008 and Clinical Assistant Professor in 2013. He is actively involved in patient care and laboratory management as an Honorary Specialist at Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong) and HKU-Shenzhen Hospital (Shenzhen). His research focuses on emerging viral infections with pandemic potential and emerging infectious diseases with special relevance to Hong Kong and Southern China. He is a top 1% scholar (Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators, since 2015-now) with over 140 peer-reviewed publications in PubMed referenced journals, including the Nature series and Lancet Infectious Diseases, and is an Associate Editor of BMC Infectious Diseases.