Dr Kwok Wing-hin, Kevin Assoc. DoRiFood & Assistant Professor

Location Y823
Phone +852 3400 8687
mail kwh.kwok@polyu.edu.hk

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Education and Academic Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Science, The University of Hong Kong




Research Overview We are interested in understanding how nanomaterials impact biology and find potential implication in environmental and food context.




Research Interests
Nanotoxicology
Environmental Quality
Food Authentication
Food Contaminants



Achievements

Representative Publications
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 Management3: 49-67.
Raisuddin S,Kwok KWH, Leung KMY, Schlenk D, Lee JS (2007) The copepodTigriopus: a promising marine model organism for ecotoxicology and environmental genomics.Aquatic Toxicology83: 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.Nanomedicine5: 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 Toxicology120-121: 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 diatomThalassiosiraScientific Reports7: 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 Safety156: 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 Immunology87: 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 Toxicology222: 105451.