Tak Wah Mak#
| Membership Number: | 4924 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1991 - 1993 Head, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute
- 1993 - 2002 Founding Director, Amgen Institute, Toronto, Canada
- 1995 - 2001 Graduate Secretary, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
- 2017 - 2022 Mok Hing Yiu Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong
- 2002 - Present Director, Advanced Medical Discovery Institute, University Health Network, Toronto
- 2008 - Present Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto
- 2004 - Present Honorary Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong
- 2004 - Present Director, The Campbell Family for Breast Cancer Research Institute, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto
- 1984 - Present Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics & Immunology University of Toronto, Toronto
- 1979 - Present Member, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Drug discovery
- Cell biology
- Molecular biology
- Immunology
- Mouse models
- Breast cancer
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery
- 2017Japanese Cancer Association (JCA) Honorary Membership, Yokohama, Japan
- 2016 6th Anthony Cerami Award in Translational Medicine, USA
- 2016 “Honorary Medal 2016” of the German Signal Transduction Society, Weimar, Germany
- 2014 The Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine
- 2013 Inductee, Fellow of AACR Academy
- 2009 2009 Inductee to Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Canada
- 2008 University of Alberta Alumni Recognition Award
- 2008 Order of Ontario, Canada
- 2007 Premier’s Summit Awards in Medical Research, Ontario, Canada
- 2005 Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, USA
- 2004 Paul Ehrlich Prize Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Republic of Germany
- 2003 Killam Prize, Canada Council
- 2002 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences (US)
- 2000 Order of Canada, Governor General of Canada
- 1998 Novartis Immunology Prizes, Novartis, Inc. Basel, Switzerland
- 1995 King Faisal International Prize for Medicine
- 1994 Fellow of The Royal Society of London
- 1989 Gairdner International Award, Gairdner Foundation
- 1988 Emil von Behring Prize (1988-1990) Phillips-Universitat Marburg, Germany
