Education
Hayday was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), natural sciences (biochemistry) in 1978. He went on to complete his PhD in molecular virology of ''Polyomaviridae'' at Imperial College London in 1982.Career and research
Hayday began studying immunology as a postdoctoral researcher in 1982 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) supervised by Susumu Tonegawa,Adrian Hayday's where he identified the molecular basis of oncogene activation in Burkitt's lymphoma. Thereafter, he first described the genes defining Gamma delta T cell, gamma-delta T cells, an evolutionarily conserved yet wholly unanticipated set of lymphocytes. At Yale University, King's College London GKT School of Medical Education, 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.Awards and honours
Hayday has received numerous awards, including the William Clyde DeVane Medal, Yale's highest honour for scholarship and teaching. He was elected to head the British Society for Immunology (2005–09), and has formally counselled King's Health Partners, the Pasteur Institute, Kyoto University, the Max Planck Institute, the Allen Institute, MedImmune, the National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, and Cancer Research UK whose science committee he chairs. He was elected a List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2016, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.References
Living people Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of King's College London Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society British immunologists 1956 births Academics of the Francis Crick Institute Fellows of King's College London {{UK-scientist-stub