Jenner Day is a yearly celebration of infection and immunity research in honour of one of City St George's, School of Health & Medical Sciences most famous alumni, the vaccinologist Edward Jenner.
At each meeting, investigators from the Institute for Infection and Immunity at City St George’s welcome friends and colleagues from across London, particularly from our major research partners (St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), other universities, UK Health Security Agency, the National Institute of Biological Standards and Controls, the Pirbright Institute, and the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Presentations from researchers at City St George’s and invited colleagues cover a range of topics in academic and clinical sciences. These presentations feature work on major human bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal pathogens and highlight our range of research interests; from molecular biology to systems biology, and from diagnostics to therapy and vaccines.
A highpoint of each meeting is the keynote Jenner Lecture, given by a distinguished speaker, whose work has had a major global health impact.
Jenner Day 2024
Jenner Day 2024 will be held on Wednesday 11 September 2024.
The Jenner Lecture will be held by Professor Rino Rappuoli who is Scientific Director of the Biotecnopolo di Siena Foundation and head of MAD Lab Toscana Life Sciences, Italy. He is also Honorary Professor of Vaccinology at Imperial College, London, and Senior Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Siena.
About the speaker
Rino Rappuoli is Scientific Director of the Biotecnopolo di Siena Foundation and Head of MAD Lab Toscana Life Sciences, Italy and previous positions include Head R&D and Chief Scientist at GSK Vaccines, Head of Vaccine R&D at Novartis, CSO at Chiron Corporation and Head R&D at Sclavo.
Rino has introduced multiple novel scientific concepts to the field of vaccinology: genetic detoxification; cellular microbiology; reverse vaccinology; pangenome. He has developed a number of now licensed vaccines: acellular pertussis containing a non-toxic mutant of pertussis toxin; first conjugate vaccine against meningococcus C; conjugate vaccines against meningococcus ACYW; MF59-adjuvanted seasonal and pandemic influenza; meningococcus B by reverse vaccinology; cell culture-based influenza vaccine and CRM 197 as the carrier of most conjugate vaccines.
As founder of the GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH) Professor Rappuoli is among the world scientific leaders dedicated to the sustainability of global health.
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Previous Jenner Day lecturers
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- 2023: Professor Keith Klugman from the Gates Foundation
- 2022: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer
- 2021: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford
- 2020: Professor Stewart Cole, Institute Pasteur
- 2019: Sir Brian Greenwood, LSHTM
- 2018: Professor Dennis Burton, Scripps Research, Ragon Institute, USA
- 2017: Professor Sharon Peacock, Sanger Institute/LSHTM
- 2016: Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, World Health Organization
- 2015: Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia, ETH Zurich
- 2014: Professor Robin Weiss, University College London
- 2013: Professor Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge
- 2012: Professor Arturo Casadevall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- 2011: Professor Philippe Sansonetti, College de France and Institut Pasteur
- 2010: Professor Sir Mark Walport, The Wellcome Trust
- 2009: Professor Myron M Levine, University of Maryland School of Medicine.