Professor Adrian Hill is the Director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator,Professor of Human Genetics and an NIHR Senior Investigator. He heads a leading malaria vaccine development programme and also regularly consults on nationally on pandemic threats. His group led the first clinical vaccine. trial against the Ebola virus outbreak strain in the major West African emergency in 2014. Professor Hill’s immunogenetics programme focuses on genome-wide and exome-wide association studies of bacterial diseases, particularly tuberculosis and pneumococcal disease, in African and European populations.
