Professor Wilfred Jefferies elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Dr Wilfried Jefferies
Overseas Scholar 1982 – 1985
Professor Wilfred Jefferies, awarded an Overseas Scholar Fellowship in 1982, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
in recognition of his innovative strategies and outstanding inventions
that enable cancer immunotherapies and vaccines. Election as a Fellow of
the NAI is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to
eminent academic inventors.
“It is a great honour to be elected as a Fellow of the NAI and to
represent Canadian research in immunology and cancer. I would sincerely
like to acknowledge my former and current colleagues for their hard work
and dedication,” says Professor Jefferies, who is being recognised for
his seminal discoveries on mechanisms underpinning cancer immune
surveillance, and immune-editing by T lymphocytes, as well as dendritic
cell cross-priming that triggers immune responses.
Prof Jefferies undertook his Overseas Scholar Fellowship at the
University of Oxford, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy for his work
researching Molecular Immunology.
