Marian Aitchison Packham FRSC (December 13, 1927 – September 20, 2020)[1] was Professor Emerita in biochemistry at University of Toronto.
[2] Packham worked part-time in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto for eleven years, while raising her children.
She continued to work with him in 1965 and 1966 at the Blood and Vascular Disease Research Unit at the University of Toronto, where they collaborated on some early investigations of the effect of aspirin to inhibit platelet aggregation.
From 1966 to 2003, she held a visiting Professorship in Pathology at McMaster University, where she continued to work with Mustard’s team.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ryerson Polytechnic University in 1997.