Current Staff
Richard A. Jefferson
Chief Executive Officer, Cambia
Dr Richard Jefferson, CEO of Cambia, is Chair of the Cambia Board. Since establishing Cambia in 1991, Richard has continued to oversee the development of new science- and technology-enabled tools for the public good. Richard Jefferson was born in 1956 in Santa Cruz, California and began his molecular biology career in 1974 at the University of California, at Santa Barbara, obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Genetics from the College of Creative Studies in 1978. He conducted his Ph.D. studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he developed the reporter gene system GUS (ß-glucuronidase) and co-developed transformation methods for the nematode C. elegans.