Siddhartha Mukherjee

Dr. Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and a Staff Physician at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Mukherjee is the author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, “The Laws of Medicine” and “The Gene: An Intimate History.” Dr. Mukherjee’s laboratory seeks to understand the biology of blood development, with a special interest in malignant and premalignant blood diseases and a goal of developing novel therapeutic strategies. Dr. Mukherjee trained as a hematologist and oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School and was on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Mukherjee obtained a DPhil in immunology from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and an MD from Harvard Medical School.