====== Wilf Jefferies ======

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Dr. **Wilfred A. Jefferies** is a Canadian pathologist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

===== Education =====

Jeffries completed his Bachelor of Sciences in Biochemistry at the [[University of Victoria]] in 1981.
Jeffries holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the [[Sir William Dunn School of Pathology]] at the [[University of Oxford]] for studies on [[glycoproteins]] expressed on activated lymphocytes.((//Wilfred Jefferies.// (2022, February 22). UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories. https://archive.ph/kQsWF))

He completed post-doctoral fellowships at the [[Institut Suisse de Recherches Expérimentales sur le Cancer]] in 1987, and the [[Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research]] at the [[Karolinska Institute]] in 1989.

He is a Fellow of the [[National Academy of Inventors]].

===== Career =====

Jeffries is a professor at the [[University of British Columbia]] in the Departments of Medical Genetics and Microbiology and Immunology, and an associate professor in the Department of Zoology.((//Wilf Jefferies.// Department of Medical Genetics. Retrieved April 8, 2022, from https://medgen.med.ubc.ca/person/wilf-jefferies/)) He is an Associate Member of the Department of Urologic Sciences, and works out of [[Michael Smith Laboratories]]. He is a senior research scientist and immuno-oncology core head at the [[Vancouver Prostate Centre]].((//Dr. Wilfred A. Jefferies.// (2020, March 27). Vancouver Prostate Centre. https://web.archive.org/web/20220408150510/https://www.prostatecentre.com/about-us/people/dr-wilfred-jefferies))

===== Research =====

Jefferies’ current research program focuses on discovering and translating new therapies for disease. His current interests are in tumour immunology and cancer [[immunotherapy]]; [[antigen]] presentation and [[vaccines]]; and [[blood-brain barrier]] and [[angiogenesis]]. His team is also utilizing novel screening systems to identify genes, proteins and small molecules that are able to restore and enhance immune recognition and killing of [[cancer]] cells.