Adrian V. S. Hill
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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 [2] is an Irish-British 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]
Hill was educated at Belvedere College in Dublin.[2] He began reading medicine at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Foundation Scholar in 1978.[7] Thereupon he transferred to Magdalen College, Oxford for one year, but he ended up remaining in Oxford to complete the rest of his medical degree, qualifying in 1982.[8][4] He remained at the University of Oxford for postgraduate studies and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1986[9] for research on the molecular genetics of thalassemia supervised by John B. Clegg.[4][10]