On 25 February 2019, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole signed a cooperation agreement with the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease of Guangzhou Medical University and the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Traditional Medicine of Macau University of Science and Technology to set up a Respiratory Diseases Research Centre. The Centre aims to provide a platform for the prevention and control of respiratory diseases in the Greater Bay Area and to strengthen exchange and cooperation in this discipline.

The agreement was signed on the occasion of the 2^nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Health Cooperation Conference, which was co-organised by the Health Commission of Guangdong Province; the Food and Health Bureau of HKSAR Government; and the Health Bureau of Macao SAR Government in Shenzhen.