Paul On Pong Ts'o (Chinese: 曹安邦; 17 July 1929 – 2 December 2009) was a Hong Kong-born biophysical chemist.
Paul On Pong Ts'o was born on 17 July 1929 in British Hong Kong 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 Ts'o family resided in Guilin. 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 in 1949, Paul O. P. Ts'o emigrated to the United States, where he earned a master's degree in at Michigan State University in 1951. He then completed a doctorate in biochemistry at Caltech, 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 Johns Hopkins University 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.[1]
Ts'o was elected a member of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1972.[1][2] 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.[1]
Ts'o died on 2 December 2009 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, aged 80.[1][3]
Selected books[edit]
- Ts'o, Paul (1974). Basic Principles in Nucleic Acid Chemistry. Academic Press. ISBN 9780127019017.[4]
- Ts'o, Paul; Gelboin, Harry (1978). Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Cancer. Academic Press.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Duff, Robert J. (February 2010). "Remembering Paul On Pong Ts'o, Ph.D. (1929-2009)". Oligonucleotides. 20 (1): 45–46. doi:10.1089/oli.2009.2001.obt. PMID 20175742. ResearchGate:297515903
- ^ "Paul O. P. Ts'o". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "Paul Ts'o". Baltimore Sun. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ Yehle, Clifford O. (September 1975). "Basic Principles in Nucleic Acid Chemistry. Volume II. Paul O. P. Ts'o". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 50 (3). doi:10.1086/408589.
- ^ Reviews of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Cancer include:
- Hagendorn, Patricia Y. (June 1979). "Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Cancer. Harry V. Gelboin and Paul O. P. Ts'o, Editors. Volume 1. Environment, Chemistry, and Metabolism, 408 pp, $37.50; Volume 2. Molecular and Cell Biology, 452 pp, $42.00, Academic Press, New York, 1978". Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 21 (6): 393. ISSN 1076-2752.
- Grover, P. L. (22 June 1979). "Chemical Carcinogens: Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Cancer. Harry V. Gelboin and Paul O. P. Ts'o, Eds. In two volumes. Vol. 1, Environment, Chemistry, and Metabolism. xxiv, 408 pp., illus. $37.50. Vol. 2, Molecular and Cell Biology. xxii, 452 pp., illus. $42. Academic Press, New York, 1978". Science. 204 (4399): 1301. doi:10.1126/science.204.4399.1301.
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