Timothy Kieffer PhD

Dr. Timothy Kieffer is a Professor of Cellular & Physiological Sciences and Surgery at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Kieffer oversees the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at UBC, with a focus on the development of novel gene and cell therapy approaches to treat diabetes.

He holds patents in the field and has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications that collectively have been cited more than 20,000 times. He co-founded enGene, a biotech developing non-viral gene therapies. He received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of British Columbia and completed his post-doctoral training in Molecular Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kieffer received the Diabetes Canada Young Scientist Award and was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Previously, he spent a year on sabbatical at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Japan.