Professor Sir Adrian Hill

Professor Sir Adrian Hill is the Director and Founder of the Jenner Institute and Mittal Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University. 

In 2014 his group led the first clinical trial of an Ebola virus vaccine targeting the outbreak in West Africa. In partnership with the Serum Institute of India and AstraZeneca, the Jenner Institute developed the ChAdOx1 vector-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine which saved an estimated 6.2 million lives in 2021 alone. His lab has designed a new malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M^TM, which has obtained WHO prequalification and is now being rolled out in several African countries.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).