Tak Wah Mak

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Tak Wah Mak (born October 4, 1946 in Guangzhou , China ) is a Canadian immunobiologist , cancer researcher and professor at the University of Toronto . He is of Chinese origin.

Life

Tak Wah Mak grew up in Hong Kong . In 1967 he earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and in 1969 a master's degree in biophysics , with a minor in chemistry . In 1972 he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in Alberta for a thesis on the biophysical and biochemical properties of three variants of the Mengo encephalomyelitis virus. in biochemistry . A short time later Mak took on the Canadian citizenship. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Ontario Cancer Institute , which is part of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto and the University of Toronto .

In the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto Mak received a first professorship (1974 Assistant Professor , 1979 Associate Professor ) and in 1984 a full professorship. Mak was founding director of the Amgen Institute , a research institute at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto and the University of Toronto in 1993 , before taking over the Institute for Breast Cancer Research of the same institutions in 2004 .

In 1980 Mak was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, and from 2004 to 2007 at the University of Hong Kong .

Act

Mak is one of the discoverers of the human T cell receptor , which he was able to clone in 1984 . Mak succeeded in showing how different types of T cells are formed. Mak could also demonstrate that a single gene of Friend leukemia virus an acute myeloid leukemia can trigger. Mak's more recent work deals with key genes that regulate the immune system and suppress tumors .

Tak Wah Mak was Canada's most cited academic author around 2004 .

Awards (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute for Breast Cancer Research - Dr. Tak W. Mak Biography (PDF, status 2004; 11 kB) at uhn.ca; accessed on May 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ RSC Fellows at rsc.ca; accessed on January 24, 2016
  3. ^ Winner of the Emil von Behring Prize of the Philipps University of Marburg at uni-marburg.de; Retrieved October 6, 2012
  4. ^ Recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award, 1989 at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved September 22, 2012
  5. ↑ Fellows at royalsociety.org; Retrieved January 20, 2011
  6. ^ Professor Tak W. Mak - King Faisal International Prize. In: kfip.org. September 1, 2013, accessed January 24, 2016 .
  7. ^ Robert L Noble Prize at cancer.ca; Retrieved January 20, 2011
  8. ↑ General Motors Cancer Research Awards Laureates 1979–1998 (PDF; 106 kB) at aacrjournals.org; Retrieved January 20, 2011
  9. ↑ Tak Wah Mak, OC, O. Ont., Ph.D., D.Sc., FRSC at gg.ca; Retrieved January 20, 2011
  10. ^ Mak, Tak Wah at nasonline.org; Retrieved January 20, 2011
  11. ↑ Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2004 goes to immunologists Mark M. Davis and Tak W. Mak ( Memento from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 50 kB) at uni-frankfurt.de.
  12. ^ Order of Ontario 2007 Appointees beiov.on.ca; Retrieved January 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mak, Tak Wah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mak, Tak; Mak, Tak W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-Canadian immunobiologist and cancer researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Guangzhou , China