Margaret Ip
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
ORCID: 0000-0003-1291-6537
External IDs: ResearcherID: K-1096-2013 | Loop profile: 200474 | Scopus Author ID: 55503091500 | SciProfiles: 1090336
Works: 260, Cited by: 0, H-index: 0
Margaret Ip is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Microbiology at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong. She received her medical training at the University of Southampton and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. She is a clinical microbiologist with over 25 years’ experience in research on the epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of clinically important bacterial pathogens, especially on Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus), MRSA and other multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Her interests include applications of new technologies, microbial multi-omics and metagenomics and state-of-art methods in the diagnoses and prevention of infections. She has published over 260 peer-reviewed papers. She serves as Advisor and Member in Scientific Committees on antimicrobial resistance and infection control and in Expert groups on GBS with WHO and FAO. She has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Microbiology for the medical MBChB and other healthcare programmes (eg Nursing, Pharmacy, Chinese Medicine, Medical Laboratory Sciences etc) during this time, and has supervised 18 fulltime completed PhD/MPhil students. She is an Examiner for the Hong Kong College of Pathologists and of the College of Physicians (in Infectious Diseases), and an external examiner for other Universities in Malaysia, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Education
- Medical Training, University of Southampton (-)
- , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (-)
Research Interests
Keywords:
Microbiologist Clinical Infectious disease
Topics:
Epidemiology Antimicrobial Resistance Bacterial Pathogens Microbial Genomics Infection Control
Professional Links
Selected Publications
Vitamin D alleviates rotavirus diarrhea
Zhao Y, Zhu X, Lan Q, Wei Z, Shang P, et al. 1α,25-hydroxyvitamin D alleviated rotavirus infection induced ferroptosis in IPEC-J2 cells by regulating the ATF3-SLC7A11-GPX4 axis. Int J Biol Macromol. 2024;283:137484. doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.137484
Related Products
Products associated with this researcher's work:
