Jack Makari

Jack G. Makari (December 23, 1917 – May 4, 2013) was a Lebanese-American cancer immunologist. He is known for the development of several cancer tests, including the Makari Intradermal Cancer Test. During his career, he taught and conducted research at institutions including Harvard University, the University of Texas, and Johns Hopkins, and he was the founder of the Makari Research Laboratories.

Early life Jack G. Makari was born on December 23, 1917, in Enfeh, Lebanon, and received his medical degree in 1941 from the Medical School of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where he served as a professor until 1945. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1959.

Career Between 1945 and 1947, Makari was a British Council scholar at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons in England. Beginning in 1947, Makari served as a senior physician and director of the hospital laboratory to the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, He remained there until 1950, when he became a World Health Organization fellow at Harvard University Medical School until 1951 and received a Masters of Public Health from Harvard in 1953.

Makari also pursued research into the possibility that viruses may be associated with cancer, such as the Marek's disease herpes virus in chickens. He published in journals including Nature, the British Medical Journal, and the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, among others.

Personal life Makari was married to Odette Tamer in 1955, with whom he had three children. Makari died on May 4, 2013.