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The team at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute has been celebrated for their global pandemic work by The Oxford Trust’s Covid Innovation Heroes Award­ 2021.

High Sheriff of Oxfordshire Imam Monawar Hussain presents the Outstanding Technical Leadership: Therapeutic Innovation award to Adrian Hill

Part of the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire’s Covid Heroes programme, the awards presented the Institute with the Outstanding Technical Leadership: Therapeutic Innovation honour. This was in recognition of its incredible work to develop, pilot, organise clinical trials for, scale-up and roll-out – in partnership with AstraZeneca – the COVID-19 vaccine in such a short space of time, saving millions of lives across the world.

Professor Adrian Hill KBE, Director of the Jenner Institute & Lakshmi Mittal & Family Professor of Vaccinology who received the award on the Institute’s behalf, said: ‘The COVID-19 vaccine response provides an excellent illustration of the strong links between academia and industry in the UK, with a vaccine candidate from the Jenner Institute at Oxford moving rapidly to many UK industrial partners in early 2021 and then onto many more manufacturing sites internationally – providing over 2 billion doses for 180 countries.’

Read the full story on the University of Oxford website