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Institute's Tak W. Mak: Sighted, Cited in Many Fields
Few areas of biomedicine are hotter these days than the effort to unravel the complicated cellular operations underlying apoptosis, more commonly known as cellular suicide. Researchers have recently made remarkable progress in plumbing the molecular depths of this suicide program to understand where it goes awry in human diseases
"I've been accused of being all over the place," says Tak W. Mak of the Amgen Institute, Toronto, Canada, whose research has spanned biochemistry, immunology, and genetics.
Three of the most important papers on the nature of genes that participate in the crucial decision-making process of cell death or cell survival come out of the laboratory of Tak Wah Mak, director of the Amgen Institute at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto and the University of Toronto. Mak, however, has also recently published two other papers on genes that...
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