Siddhartha Mukherjee – 2011

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, oncologist SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. His 4,000-year history of a deadly and bedeviling illness, THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A BIOGRAPHY OF CANCER, was also a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. A Rhodes Scholar, Mukherjee graduated from Stanford University and went on to earn his Ph.D. at Oxford University and his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He has been a fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His laboratory has made seminal discoveries on blood-forming stem cells, and the biology of cancer. Articles and commentary have been published in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New York Times, and The New Republic.

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