Siddhartha Mukherjee

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-American physician, oncologist, and author. Holding a D.Phil. from Oxford and an M.D. from Harvard, he serves as an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University.

He achieved international literary fame as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, followed by The Gene and The Song of the Cell.

Mukherjee’s extraordinary literary talent in narrating the history of modern science and medicine has made complex biomedical discoveries accessible globally. He is a premier scientific intellect.