Malaria vaccines – trials updates
Hybrid seminar. For MS Teams details contact elizabeth.mann@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Adrian V.S. Hill KBE, FRCP, FRS is the Lakshmi Mittal Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Jenner
Institute at Oxford University. In 2005 he founded the Jenner Institute at Oxford, which is now one of
the largest academic vaccine centres globally with clinical-stage vaccine programmes against fifteen
diseases.
His promising malaria vaccine has shown high efficacy in clinical trials in the UK and Africa and could
be the first widely used vaccine to impact on the great disease burden of malaria in Africa.
In Q1 2020, the Jenner Institute initiated a major effort towards rapid development of a COVID-19
vaccine which, in collaboration with AstraZeneca, is now in world-wide pandemic deployment.
He has published over 600 research papers with 60,000 citations and co-founded several spin-off
companies. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians and
the Royal Society.
Date: 14 June 2022, 16:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: 11a Mansfield Rd, OX1 3SZ
Speaker: Prof Adrian Hill (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
Organising department: NDM Experimental Medicine
Organiser: Dr Elizabeth Mann
Organiser contact email address: elizabeth.mann@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Host: Prof Peter Simmonds (University of Oxford)
Part of: Medawar Infectious Diseases Forum
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Elizabeth Pickmann