AACREmmanuel Farber, chairman emeritus and professor in the department of pathology at the University of Toronto, died last week (August 3). He was 95.
Farber’s groundbreaking studies early in his career demonstrated that chemical carcinogens could bind to nucleic acids; he later showed that a series of chemical treatments could induce liver cancer. As part of the Surgeon General’s first Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health in the early 1960s, Farber was an early advocate of limiting tobacco use and increasing public education about smoking risks, although such views were opposed by industry and other scientists, according to The ASCO Post.
Born in Toronto in 1918, Farber earned his MD from the university there, and later, a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He began his academic career at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, followed by a position as professor of biochemistry at the University ...
