Adrian Hayday

Adrian joined Prokarium in 2022 as advisor in immunology and immunotherapy. He is the Head of Division and inaugural Chair of Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology at King’s College London, and Senior Group Leader and Assistant Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute. Trained as a biochemist, Adrian undertook PhD studies in tumour virology and then pursued postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was for 13 years on the faculty at Yale working on gamma delta T cells and his group returned to London in 1998 to establish the Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology at King's College London. He joined the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) as a joint appointee in 2009. Among many honours, in 1997 he became the first biologist to win Yale College's most prestigious prize for scholarship, the William Clyde DeVane Medal. Adrian was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.