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Tak Mak: Renowned for cell research.
Tak Mak: Renowned for cell research.

Tak Mak: Renowned for cell research.

Date2/15/1993
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Victor Ling is world- renowned for his work in cancer research. Last year he received both the Dr. Josef Steiner Prize in Europe and the General Motors Kettering Prize - recognized as the top international award for cancer research - at a June dinner in Washington, D.C. Ling helped discover how cancer cells resist the effects of tumor-destroying drugs by using a tiny protein. The protein ejects drugs from the cell before they have time to act. Ling spent years refining and confirming the discovery, which has sparked a search for the right decoy drug capable of fooling the protein and allowing cancer-fighting drugs to slip in for the kill.
Victor Ling is world- renowned for his work in cancer research. Last year he received both the Dr. Josef Steiner Prize in Europe and the General Motors Kettering Prize - recognized as the top international award for cancer research - at a June dinner in Washington, D.C. Ling helped discover how cancer cells resist the effects of tumor-destroying drugs by using a tiny protein. The protein ejects drugs from the cell before they have time to act. Ling spent years refining and confirming the discovery, which has sparked a search for the right decoy drug capable of fooling the protein and allowing cancer-fighting drugs to slip in for the kill.
8/2/1991
At Odds: Virologist immunologist Tak Mak, above, believes that a concerted effort is needed to fight AIDS.
At Odds: Virologist immunologist Tak Mak, above, believes that a concerted effort is needed to fight AIDS.
3/7/1988
Researcher at work: Dr. Alan Bernstein, described as best cell biologist in country, works in lab at the new Mount Sinai Research Institute, the first major research centre to be founded in Canada in years. Director is Dr. Louis Siminovitch, former chief of genetics at Hospital for Sick Children.
Researcher at work: Dr. Alan Bernstein, described as best cell biologist in country, works in lab at the new Mount Sinai Research Institute, the first major research centre to be founded in Canada in years. Director is Dr. Louis Siminovitch, former chief of genetics at Hospital for Sick Children.
8/7/1985
Jamaica, where holidayers frolic in the waters of Dunn's River Falls, is the starting-off place for one air-sea combination You fly to the island, tak(...)
Jamaica, where holidayers frolic in the waters of Dunn's River Falls, is the starting-off place for one air-sea combination You fly to the island, tak(...)
7/26/1969
Arctic conditions on the Toronto waterfront provide a fitting background for Hugh and Karmel McCullum who head for northern Quebec this weekend to tak(...)
Arctic conditions on the Toronto waterfront provide a fitting background for Hugh and Karmel McCullum who head for northern Quebec this weekend to tak(...)
2/14/1976
Toadstool technology: Tak Chen, manager of Royal Mushroom Company in Mississauga, turns out 150 pounds of shiitake a day, thanks to 'logs' they're spawned on.
Toadstool technology: Tak Chen, manager of Royal Mushroom Company in Mississauga, turns out 150 pounds of shiitake a day, thanks to 'logs' they're spawned on.
1/6/1981
Nadia's very first sled ride, Silhouetted against the winter sun at Scarborough's Morningside Park yesterday, Den and Sherry Lurvey of Scarborough tak(...)
Nadia's very first sled ride, Silhouetted against the winter sun at Scarborough's Morningside Park yesterday, Den and Sherry Lurvey of Scarborough tak(...)
1/12/1988
Heredity transmits defects in the way the body produces or uses cholesterol, the blood fat that can clog arteries and cause strokes. Bev Nisenboim tak(...)
Heredity transmits defects in the way the body produces or uses cholesterol, the blood fat that can clog arteries and cause strokes. Bev Nisenboim tak(...)
5/2/1972
Mr. Midway, Jimmy Conklin, with his private railway car which he uses to tour the Ontario fairgrounds. Conklin, son of the late Patty Conklin, has tak(...)
Mr. Midway, Jimmy Conklin, with his private railway car which he uses to tour the Ontario fairgrounds. Conklin, son of the late Patty Conklin, has tak(...)
8/18/1971
T. W. Mak
T. W. Mak
2/15/1974
Moment of heartbreak! Veteran diver Mak Lubker, 76, emerges from the icy Credit river holding on to the body of six-year-old Jopy Verheul
Moment of heartbreak! Veteran diver Mak Lubker, 76, emerges from the icy Credit river holding on to the body of six-year-old Jopy Verheul
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Kin Mak: Economics graduate is a self-taught designer, draftsman, pattern maker and sewer
Kin Mak: Economics graduate is a self-taught designer, draftsman, pattern maker and sewer
6/21/1983