Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D.

Oncologist and Cancer Researcher | Pulitzer Prize-winning Science Writer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, D.Phil. is a physician, researcher, and author, who serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and as an oncologist at the university’s medical center. Dr. Mukherjee trilogy of books has made a vast contribution to the public discourse on human health, medicine, and science.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer earned the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and The Gene: An Intimate History won international awards and was recognized by The Washington Post and The NewYork Times as one of the most influential books of 2016. Both books have been adapted into PBS documentaries by the renowned filmmaker KenBurns. The Emperor of All Maladies was included among Time magazine’s 100 best nonfiction books of the past century.

As a medical scholar, Dr. Mukherjee has conducted innovative research that signals a paradigm shift in cancer pathology and has enabled the development of treatments that disrupt current pharmaceutical models toward new biological and cellular therapies. He was among the first to make cellular therapies available in India, and among the first to begin developing AI-based algorithms to discover human medicines. His groundbreaking research is now being translated into a record number of concurrent clinical trials across the globe, spanning novel therapies for ovarian, breast and endometrial cancer, leukemias and lymphomas, and a variety of other diseases. Only a select few medical scholars have been able to translate their work into human trials of such depth and breadth. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Mukherjee writes for The New YorkerThe New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work and has published his original research and opinions in journals such as NatureCell, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

A native of India, Dr. Mukherjee received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and was a Rhodes scholar at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. After graduating from Harvard Medical School, he completed his internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and his hematology-oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Would post-genomic knowledge change us as human beings?
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Understanding The Gene | Live at Politics & Prose
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The Gene — Live Talk | Vintage Books
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The Gene, a PBS Ken Burns documentary | Preview
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Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill | TED 2015
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Keeping health care workers, public safe amid coronavirus | MSNBC
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Genetically Mapping the Future of Cancer | Talks at GS
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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies | PBS Trailer
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David Grann and Siddhartha Mukherjee are among contenders for a prestigious nonfiction prize
AP
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The Prize announces the 2023 longlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize
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What is a Cell?
C-Span
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What makes Siddhartha Mukherjee a literary phenomenon
The Week
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When our cells turn against us
The Harvard Gazette
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Why Aren't We All Bacteria?'
TIME

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