Adrian Hayday

Biography

Adrian Hayday is Kay Glendinning Professor of Immunobiology at King’s College London; co-lead of the Clinical Academic Grouping in Genetics Rheumatology, Immunology, Infection, and Dermatology at Kings’ affiliated hospitals; and a Senior Group Leader at the London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK. He graduated in biochemistry from Cambridge; earned a PhD in virology from London University; and undertook post-doctoral training at M.I.T., before his appointment (at age 28) to the Yale University faculty, where he rose to Full-Professor and was awarded the DeVane Medal, Yale’s highest honor for scholarship and teaching. He returned to restructure immunology at King’s in 1998. He co-discovered the unanticipated “gamma-delta” T cell antigen receptor, provoking widespread interest in immune cell function within tissues, and tumor immune surveillance. His active research team has published almost 200 papers, with 33 published in cross-disciplinary journals, Nature, Science, Cell, or Proceedings of the National Academy. He won the King’s College Award for Business in 2009; has served on numerous scientific advisory and investor advisory boards, and has chaired funding panels for the Welcome Trust and the American Cancer Society.

Research Interest

Immunobiology