Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Mukherjee in April 2011
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| Native name | সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী |
| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | American, Indian |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
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| Thesis | The processing and presentation of viral antigens (1997) |
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2011) Guardian First Book Award (2011) |
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 1970) is an Indian American physician, biological scientist, and author best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by Time magazine, and one of the 100 notable books of 2010 by The New York Times Magazine. In 2016, Mukherjee released The Gene: An Intimate History which chronicles the history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information?
Currently, he is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and staff physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. He has been the Plummer Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, the Joseph Garland lecturer at the Massachusetts Medical Society, and an honorary visiting professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
A haematologist and oncologist, Mukherjee is also known for his work on the formation of blood and the interactions between the micro-environment ("niche") and cancer cells. In 2014, the Government of India conferred its fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, upon Mukherjee.
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