Adrian Hill | Director and Professor
The Jenner Institute - University of Oxford

Professor Adrian V. S. Hill FRCP, FRS is the Director and Founder of the Jenner Institute, and Mittal Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University. He is a passionate believer in the power of molecular medicine to address many of the most egregious health care inequities globally. His group have been leaders in the development of adenoviral and other vaccines against infectious diseases and he has tested these in extensively in over eighty clinical trials in Africa and Europe. In partnership with the Serum Institute of India and AstraZeneca the Jenner Institute developed rapidly a ChAdOx1 vector- based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine which saved an estimated 6.2 million lives in 2021 alone. His lab also designed a newly licensed high efficacy malaria vaccine, R21 in the saponin adjuvant Matrix-MTM, which has recently shown unprecedented high efficacy in a phase III trial in four African countries, again in partnership with the Serum Institute of India and also Novavax Inc. This vaccine promises to make a major impact on reducing the 500,000 childhood deaths from malaria each year. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and recently was honoured as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).