Siddhartha Mukherjee
Author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
About the Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in 1970 in New Delhi, India. He received an undergraduate degree in biology from Stanford University, a DPhil in immunology from Magdalen College, Oxford University, and a M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is known for his work on the formation of blood, and the show more interactions between the micro-environment and cancer cells. His book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff physician at Columbia University Medical Center. His articles have appeared in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes (2016) — Foreword, some editions — 1,141 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1970
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
India (birth) - Birthplace
- New Delhi, India
- Places of residence
- New Delhi, India
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Stanford University
University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
Harvard University (Medical School)
St. Columba's School, New Delhi - Occupations
- oncologist
professor - Organizations
- Columbia University
- Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2011
Rhodes Scholar - Short biography
- Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, and The New York Times. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. [adapted from The Laws of Medicine (New York: TED Books, 2015)
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