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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian-American physician, writer b. 1970 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970)[1] is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction,[2] and Guardian First Book Award,[3] among others. The book was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" (the 100 most influential books of the last century) by Time magazine in 2011.[4] His 2016 book The Gene: An Intimate History made it to #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list,[5] and was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016,[6] and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
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Born | (1970-07-21) 21 July 1970 (age 54) New Delhi, India |
Nationality | American |
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Spouse | Sarah Sze |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Rhodes Scholarship Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2011) Guardian First Book Award (2011) Padma Shri (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Immunology Cancer epidemiology Genetic epidemiology |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Thesis | The processing and presentation of viral antigens (1997) |
Website | siddharthamukherjee |
After completing secondary school education in India, Mukherjee studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. from University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.D. from Harvard University. He joined New York–Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center in New York City in 2009. As of 2018, he is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology.[7]
Featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people, Mukherjee writes for The New Yorker and is a columnist in The New York Times. He is described as part of a select group of doctor-writers (such as Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande) who have "transformed the public discourse on human health",[8] and allowed a generation of readers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of science and medicine.[9] His research concerns the physiology of cancer cells, immunological therapy for blood cancers, and the discovery of bone- and cartilage-forming stem cells in the vertebrate skeleton.[10]
The Government of India conferred on him its fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2014.[11]