Sir Adrian Vivian Sinton Hill, KBE FRS FMedSci FRCP (born 9 October 1958)[2] is a British-Irish 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.

[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 [Wikidata].

His group has developed numerous candidate vaccines against malaria which have been tested in clinical trials in the UK and Africa.

[12][15][16] In 2016 he co-founded Vaccitech plc, an Oxford University spin-off company developing therapeutic and preventive vaccines based on viral vector technology.

[18] In response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic he worked with many others at Oxford to develop and partner the ChAdOx1 vector-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, notably with AstraZeneca and the Serum Institute of India, supporting large scale access for low and middle income countries.