Dr. Wilfred A. Jefferies

Dr. Wilfred Jefferies, an author of over 100 manuscripts and more than 80 patents worldwide, is acclaimed for his pioneering discoveries and inventions that enable cancer immunotherapies and vaccines. His innovative strategies and outstanding inventions have been recognized through his election as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as a Fellow of the NAI is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to eminent academic inventors.

Born in North Vancouver, Jefferies is a graduate of the University of Victoria, the University of Oxford where he received his PhD focused on Molecular Immunology and completed his post-doctoral research at the Institut Suisse de Recherche Expérimentale sur le Cancer in the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and later conducted research at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
In 1989, the late Nobel Laureate, Dr. Michael Smith, recruited Jefferies to the University of British Columbia.

See also:

• The University of British Columbia Profile
• Google Scholar Citations