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Jane Lambert
The European Inventor Award is a biennial "celebration of the inventive spirit, the individual contributions of talented inventors, and the European patent system that protects inventions and encourages innovation" established by the European Patent Office in 2006. Prizes are awarded for inventions in the following categories:
- industry
- research
- Non-EPO countries
- SMEs
- lifetime achievement, and
- popular prize.
Winners of each category receive a trophy in the form of a sail designed by Miriam Irle.
The research category celebrates inventors working at universities, research institutions or their spin-offs. The winner of this year's research category is Professor Sir Adrian Hill, Founding Director of the Jenner Institute and Chair of the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford. The invention for which this year's research award was granted was the R21/Matrix-M vaccine against malaria, more particularly described in European patent specification EP2945649 B1
According to Wikipedia, Sir Adrian was born in Ireland. He attended Belvedere College SJ in Dublin, read medicine at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford and carried out his doctoral research on the molecular genetics of thalassemia at Oxford. As well as being a leader in malaria vaccine development, Sir Adrian was a co-leader of the research team that produced the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. He was knighted for his services in 2021.
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