Kok Lian HO is an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. His research interests include structural and molecular virology. He was trained as an X-ray crystallographer in Edinburgh (2004-2008) and was a visiting scientist at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in 2016, where he started to use cryo-electron microscopy to study virus structures. He has solved the three-dimensional structures of methyl-CpG binding proteins, the capsid of the hepatitis B virus, and the capsid of a prawn nodavirus. He is now actively involved in research for vaccine development, particularly for human influenza A virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and coronavirus.