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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. His book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. 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, Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.

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Enter the Guardian first book award 2013
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...White Teeth by Zadie Smith , Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane , The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee , and the 2012 winner Kevin Powers for The Yellow Birds . The judging panel will be chaired by Lisa Allardice , Editor of...
Dr. Ricardo Azziz: The Critical Art of Storytelling
Huffington Post, April 15, 2013
...here is a man who knows how to tell stories about science. And in a more contemporary example, Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies, a biography of cancer. When Dr. Mukherjee started writing the book, he thought of cancer as a disease but...
Adopt a book now
World News Network, April 3, 2013
...Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King If I Stay by Gayle Foreman To Say...
Lit fests go places
Times of India, March 28, 2013
...Literature Festivals are now gaining popularity in India judging by their sheer number in recent times. From Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Goa, Kovalam, Kasauli, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar to Karimganj, the map of India is now getting dotted with...
After a College Visit, a Student Finally Knows What She Wants
New York Times, February 28, 2013
...genetics, water and the expansion of the universe. (I had recently read “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, which led to a sudden spike in my interest in biology.) I was assigned a class on patching damaged genes. As excited as I...
Annual Future of Genomic Medicine Conference - Mar 7 & 8
Scripps Translational Science Institute, January 16, 2013
...conditions on March 7-8, 2013, in San Diego. Harvard geneticist George Church and Pulitzer Prize winning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (“The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”) will be among the world-class field of presenters...
Books
Calcutta Telegraph, December 30, 2012
...Mamata Banerjee rubbing shoulders with Karl Marx! The rack also has Tagore, Ramakrishna and the Pulitzer-winning cancer specialist, Siddhartha Mukherjee. so new is a shelf of Hindi books, which holds classics as well as translations ? from Tagore and...
Annual Future of Genomic Medicine Conference - Mar 7 & 8
Scripps Translational Science Institute, January 16, 2013
...conditions on March 7-8, 2013, in San Diego. Harvard geneticist George Church and Pulitzer Prize winning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (“The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”) will be among the world-class field of presenters...
Infographic: Sculptures Made By Measuring Wi-Fi Signals
Fast Company, January 15, 2013
...is back with a new installation based on WLAN strength. 0 0 All science, observed writer and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, starts with counting. “To understand a phenomenon, a scientist must first describe it,” Mukherjee wrote. “To...
Ties of bloodSunday, January 13, 2013,09:31:52 PM
Bangalore Mirror, January 13, 2013
...prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, noted Indian American oncologist and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee often dwells on the scourge of childhood cancers and the efforts of medicine men to find a cure for it over the...
First baby of the new year
Barrys Bay This Week, January 9, 2013
...when he tipped the scale at nearly 11. Norlock was in labour for nearly six hours when Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee made the decision to perform a c-section because of Liam’s size. So far Liam is a good baby and he’s had lots of visitors including...
Hello, Liam!
Pembroke Daily Observer, January 4, 2013
...when he tipped the scale at nearly 11. Norlock was in labour for nearly six hours when Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee made the decision to perform a c-section because of Liam’s size. So far Liam is a good baby and he’s had lots of visitors including...
Books
Calcutta Telegraph, December 30, 2012
...Mamata Banerjee rubbing shoulders with Karl Marx! The rack also has Tagore, Ramakrishna and the Pulitzer-winning cancer specialist, Siddhartha Mukherjee. so new is a shelf of Hindi books, which holds classics as well as translations ? from Tagore and...
Hard to put down - a hectic but rewarding year in books
South China Morning Post, December 30, 2012
...Michael Gorra wrote one illuminating book ( Portrait of a Novel) about another: Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. Siddhartha Mukherjee produced a biography about a disease: The Emperor of All Maladies narrated the history of cancer. Arguably the most...