Seminar topic: New vaccines against Malaria

Date: 1st December 2025
Time: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Keynote Speaker: PROF ADRIAN HILL DIRECTOR OF THE JENNER INSTITUTE, LAKSHMI MITTAL & FAMILY
PROFESSOR OF VACCINOLOGY, PROFESSOR OF HUMAN GENETICS
Venue: RESEARCH BOARDROOM, RM 901, ALUMNI PLAZA

Host: Prof Jesse Gitaka, Director, Grants and Development, MKU

Presenters Bio:

Adrian V. S. Hill is the Director and Founder of the Jenner Institute and Mittal Professor of
Vaccinology at Oxford University. His group has been one of the leaders in the
development of adenoviral and other vaccines against infectious diseases and he has
tested these in extensively in clinical trials in Africa and Europe. In partnership with the
Serum Institute of India and AstraZeneca the Jenner Institute developed rapidly a
ChAdOx1 vector-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine which saved an estimated 6.2 million lives in
2021 alone. His lab has also designed a new malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-MTM, which has
recently reached regulatory reviews for licensure, again in partnership with the Serum
Institute of India and also Novavax Inc. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
and appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in
Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Honours.