Paul On Pong Ts'o (; 17 July 1929 – 2 December 2009) was a

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

-born biophysical chemist. Paul On Pong Ts'o was born on 17 July 1929 in

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was under British Empire, British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II from 1941 to 1945. It was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 ...

to parents Paul S. F. Ts’o and Amy Hoh Ts'o. Ts'o's father was an Episcopalian clergyman. For a portion of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, the Ts'o family resided in

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. The younger Paul Ts'o attended in Hong Kong's True Light School, where Amy Hoh Ts'o served as principal. After graduating from

Lingnan University Lingnan University a public research university located in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. Lingnan University has 3 faculties, 3 Schools, 16 departments, 2 language centres, and 2 units (science and music), offering 29 degree honours ...

in 1949, Paul O. P. Ts'o emigrated to the United States, where he earned a master's degree in at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

in 1951. He then completed a doctorate in biochemistry at

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, where he was advised by James F. Bonner, in 1955. Ts'o remained with the Bonnor laboratory for seven years as a research fellow, then joined the

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faculty. He was appointed to a full professorship in 1967 and retired from teaching in 2002, thereafter serving as a senior associate at Johns Hopkins. After leaving academia, Ts'o cofounded Genta, served as chief executive and technology officer of Cell Works, Inc, and established Comprehensive Cancer Cell Diagnostics. Ts'o was elected a member of Taiwan's

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in 1972. His activities in Taiwan included chairing the Advisory Committee of the Academia Sinica's Molecular Biology Institute and organizing what became the Clinical Cancer Research Center. From 1994, Ts'o was convenor of the Academia Sinica's Medical Biotechnology Subcommittee. Ts'o died on 2 December 2009 at

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, aged 80.

Selected books

* *Reviews of ''Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Cancer'' include: * *

References

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