Academic Staff
PolyU Scholars Hub
Dr Kwok Wing-hin, Kevin
Associate Head (FSN), Associate DoRiFood & Associate Professor
- Y823
- +852 3400 8687
- kwh.kwok@polyu.edu.hk
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We are interested in understanding how nanomaterials impact biology and find potential implication in environmental and food context.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, The University of Hong Kong
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong
Research Interests
Achievements
- Kwok KWH, Leung KMY*, Lui GCS, Chu VKH, Lam PKS, Morritt D, Maltby L, Brock TCM, Van Den Brink PJ, Warne MSJ, Crane M (2007) Comparison of tropical and temperate freshwater animal species acute sensitivity to chemicals: implication for deriving safe extrapolation factor. SETAC/ Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 3: 49-67.
- Raisuddin S, Kwok KWH, Leung KMY, Schlenk D, Lee JS (2007) The copepod Tigriopus: a promising marine model organism for ecotoxicology and environmental genomics. Aquatic Toxicology 83: 161-173.
- Kwok KWH, Leung KMY*, Flahaut E, Cheng J, Cheng SH* (2010) Chronic toxicity of double-walled carbon nanotubes to three marine organisms: influence of different dispersion methods. Nanomedicine 5: 951-961.
- Kwok KWH, Auffan M, Badireddy AR, Nelson CM, Wiesner MR, Chilkoti A, Liu J, Marinakos SM, Hinton DE* (2012) Uptake of Silver nanoparticles and Toxicity to Early Life Stages of Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes): Effect of Coating Materials. Aquatic Toxicology 120-121: 59-66.
- Kwok KWH, Dong W, Marinakos SM, Liu J, Chilkoti A, Wiesner MR, Chernick M, Hinton DE* (2016) Silver nanoparticle toxicity is related to coating materials and disruption of sodium concentration regulation. Nanotoxicology, 10(9):1306-1017
- Yung MMN, Kwok KWH, Djurisic AB, Giesy JP, Leung KMY* (2017) Influences of temperature and salinity on physicochemical properties and toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles to the marine diatom Thalassiosira Scientific Reports 7: 3662.
- Shi M, Zhang C, Xia IF, Cheung ST, Wong KS, Wong K-H, Au DWT, Hinton DE, Kwok KWH* (2018) Maternal dietary exposure to selenium nanoparticle led to malformation in offspring. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 156: 34-40.
- Yu SM, Luk KH, Cheung ST, Kwok KWH, Wong KH*, Chen TF* (2018) Polysaccharide-protein complex-decorated selenium nanosystem as an efficient bone-formation therapeutic. Journal of Materials Chemistry B: 6, 5215.
- Xia IF, Cheung JS, Wu M, Wong KS, Kong HK, Zheng XY, Wong KH, Kwok KWH* (2019) Dietary chitosan-selenium nanoparticle (CTS-SeNP) enhance immunity and disease resistance in zebrafish. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 87: 449-459
- Li M, Yao L, Chen H, Ni X, Xu Y, Dong W, Fang M, Chen D, Aowuliji, Xu L, Zhao B, Deng J, Kwok KWH*, Yang J*, Dong W* (2020) Chiral toxicity of muscone to embryonic zebrafish heart. Aquatic Toxicology 222: 105451.
