Siddhartha Mukherjee (New Delhi, India, July 21, 1970) is an Indian-American physician, researcher, and writer, considered one of the greatest scientific communicators and innovative voices in contemporary medicine. He studied Biology at Stanford, was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil. in immunology, and graduated in Medicine at Harvard. He is currently an associate professor of Medicine at Columbia University and an oncologist in New York, leading pioneering research on cancer and cell therapies. In addition to his clinical and scientific work, he writes for media such as The New Yorker and The New York Times.
His work The Emperor of All Maladies (2010), a biography of cancer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and was adapted into a documentary by Ken Burns. He is also the author of The Gene: An Intimate History (2016), which was an international success and finalist for prestigious awards, The Laws of Medicine (2015) and The Song of the Cell (2022), all recognized as benchmarks in the dissemination of modern science. Mukherjee has received numerous accolades, including the Padma Shri (2014, awarded by the government of India), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science (2019) and the Dr. Ida S. Scudder Socratic Leadership Award (2024). His books, praised for their rigor, humanity, and narrative clarity, have brought medicine and biology closer to millions of readers around the world, consolidating him as an essential figure to understand health and the future of science.
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