Adrian Hayday
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Adrian Hayday at the Royal Society admissions day in London for new fellows in 2016
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| Born | Adrian Clive Hayday April 1956 (age 61) |
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| Thesis | Structure and activity of integrated polyoma viral DNA in transformed rat cells (1979) |
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Adrian Clive Hayday (born 1956)FMedSci FRS is the Kay Glendinning Professor and Chair in the Department of Immunobiology at King's College London and group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in the UK.
Hayday was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) in 1978. He went on to complete his PhD in molecular virology of Polyomaviridae at Imperial College London in 1982.
Hayday began studying immunology as a postdoctoral researcher in 1982 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) supervised by Susumu Tonegawa, where he identified the molecular basis of oncogene activation in Burkitt's lymphoma. Thereafter, he first described the genes defining gamma-delta T cells, an evolutionarily conserved yet wholly unanticipated set of lymphocytes. At Yale University, King's College London School of Medicine and the Francis Crick Institute, Hayday established that gamma-delta T cells are distinct from other T cells, commonly monitoring body-surface integrity rather than specific infections. Their rapid responses to tissue dysregulation offer protection from carcinogenesis, underpinning Hayday’s and others’ ongoing initiatives to employ the cells for immunotherapy.
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