Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-born American physician, oncologist, biologist, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), which chronicles the history and science of cancer. He holds degrees from Stanford University, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard Medical School, and serves as an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University, where he researches blood cancers and normal blood development. Mukherjee has authored several acclaimed works on medicine and science, including The Gene: An Intimate History and The Song of the Cell.