Sir Adrian Hill | |
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Born | |
Education | Belvedere College |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Vaccinology |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics Immunology Vaccines Malaria[1] |
Institutions | |
Thesis | The distribution and molecular basis of thalassaemia in Oceania (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | John Brian Clegg David Weatherall |
Website | www |
Sir Adrian Vivian Sinton Hill, KBE FRS FMedSci FRCP (born 9 October 1958)[2] is a British-Irish vaccinologist who is Director of the Jenner Institute and Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford, an honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases,[3] and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[4] Hill is a leader in the field of malaria vaccine development and was a co-leader of the research team which produced the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, along with Professor Sarah Gilbert of the Jenner Institute and Professor Andrew Pollard of the Oxford Vaccine Group.[5][1][6]