Professor of Paediatrics, University of Bristol

Adam Finn is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Bristol, UK. He studied medical sciences at Cambridge University and then moved to University of Oxford Medical School to complete his clinical degree in 1983. After qualifying he did training jobs in paediatrics in Sheffield, Bristol and Guy’s Hospital London before taking up a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1987. He completed his academic training as Lecturer in Immunology at the Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond St, London where he wrote his PhD. In 1992 he took up a senior lecturer position at the University of Sheffield, UK. Over the following 9 years he established both clinical and laboratory research groups there, focussing on mucosal immune responses to paediatric conjugate vaccines and the pathogenesis of upper and lower respiratory tract pneumococcal infection. In 2001 he moved to Bristol where he is now Theme Leader of the Infection & Immunity Research Theme, University of Bristol and Clinical Research Lead - Children, Genetics, Haematology, Reproductive Health and Childbirth for the NIHR Clinical Research Network: West of England. He also leads the paediatric immunology and infectious diseases clinical service for Bristol and the South West region and heads the Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre. His main recent research interests continue to relate to elucidation of the nature of naturally acquired mucosal immunity to pneumococcus, meningococcus and other respiratory bacteria and development of tools to assess human immune responses to candidate vaccine antigens. He also leads and supports numerous clinical trials of drugs and medicines in children.


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