Tak Wah Mak - Curriculum Vitae#
Director, Senior Staff Scientist, University Professor
EDUCATION
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin B.Sc. 06/67 Biochemistry
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin M.Sc. 06/69 Biophysics
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Ph.D. 06/72 Biochemistry
Positions / Employment (selected)
- 1974 - present Senior Scientific Staff - The Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario
- 1984 - present Professor, Department of Med Biophysics, & Immunology, U. of Toronto, Toronto
- 1979 - present Member, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto
- 1993 - 2002 Founding Director, Amgen Institute, Toronto, Canada
- 2002 - present Director, Advanced Medical Discovery Institute, University Health Network, Toronto
- 2004 - present Director, Campbell Family for Breast Cancer Research Institute, University Health Network
Other Professional Activities (selected)
- 1987 - present Fellowship Panel, Cancer Research Institute, New York
- 1992 - present Scientific Advisory Council, Cancer Research Institute, New York
- 1997 - present Ad hoc Member, National Cancer Institute (US) Breast Cancer Think Tank
- 2006 - present Scientific Advisory Board, International Scientific Committee of the Fundacion Caubet-Cimera Illes Balears, Mallorca, Spain
- 2006 - present Trustee, The Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong
- 2008 - present Scientifc Advisory Board (Founder), Agios Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Mass. USA
- 2008 - present Scientific Advisory Committee, Stand Up To Cancer, American Association for Cancer Research, USA
- 2008 - present Scientific Advisory Board, Immune Disease Institute Inc., Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
- 2008 - present Scientific Advisory Board, European Union Program on Diet, Microbes, and Immunity
Honors (selected)
- 1989 Gairdner International Award
- 1994 Fellow of The Royal Society of London
- 1995 King Faisal International Prize for Medicine
- 1998 Novartis Immunology Prizes, Novartis, Inc. Basel, Switzerland
- 2000 Order of Canada
- 2002 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences (US)
- 2004 Paul Ehrlich Prize Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Germany
- 2009 2009 Inductee to Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Canada
- 2013 Inductee, Fellow of AACR Academy
- 2016 Honorary Medal 2016 of the German Signal Transduction Society/Cell Communication and Signaling (STS/CCS)
