Adrian V. S. Hill

Sir Adrian Vivian Sinton Hill, KBE FRS FMedSci FRCP (born 9 October 1958) is an Irish vaccinologist (with British citizenship as well as his native Irish citizenship - dual citizenship), 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, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. 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.

Sir

Adrian Hill

KBE FRS FMedSci FRCP
Born (1958-10-09) 9 October 1958
EducationBelvedere College
Alma mater
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • University of Oxford
Known forVaccinology
Spouses
  • Sunetra Gupta
    (m. 1994; div. 2020)
  • Sabina Murray
    (m. 2021)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
Immunology
Vaccines
Malaria
Institutions
ThesisThe distribution and molecular basis of thalassaemia in Oceania (1986)
Doctoral advisorJohn Brian Clegg
David Weatherall
Websitewww.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-adrian-hill
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