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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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Frei made major breakthroughs in cancer treatment
Bend Bulletin, May 5, 2013
...book, ?The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," published in 2010, the doctor and author Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote of Frei making rounds on a pediatric oncology ward. ?He was charming, soft-spoken and careful," Mukherjee wrote. ?To watch him...
Emil Frei III, Who Put Cancer Cures in Reach, Dies at 89
New York Times, May 4, 2013
...Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, published in 2010, the doctor and author Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote of Dr. Frei making rounds on a pediatric oncology ward. He was charming, soft-spoken and careful, Dr. Mukherjee...
Even Ensler connects to the world through a cancer diagnosis
NBCNews.com, April 30, 2013
...point in history I would have been dead at fifty-seven. In his book, The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee says, “Science is often described as an inter- active and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece with each piece...
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...
Annual Reception
Friends of Cancer Research, May 10, 2013
...NIH) Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commisioner, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Senator Orrin Hatch, (R-UT) US Senate Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee,  Physician and Pulitzer Prize winning author Representative John Dingell, (D-MI) US House of...
Eve Ensler
WTTW-TV, May 9, 2013
...point in history I would have been dead at fifty-seven. In his book, The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee says, “Science is often described as an interactive and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece with each piece...
Emil Frei Dies
GenomeWeb, May 6, 2013
...had osteosarcoma. Further, the Times notes that in his book, The Emperor of All Maladies, physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee called Frei a "charming" physician. "To watch him manage critically ill children and their testy, nervous parents was to...
Frei made major breakthroughs in cancer treatment
Bend Bulletin, May 5, 2013
...book, ?The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," published in 2010, the doctor and author Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote of Frei making rounds on a pediatric oncology ward. ?He was charming, soft-spoken and careful," Mukherjee wrote. ?To watch him...
Emil Frei III, Who Put Cancer Cures in Reach, Dies at 89
New York Times, May 4, 2013
...Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, published in 2010, the doctor and author Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote of Dr. Frei making rounds on a pediatric oncology ward. He was charming, soft-spoken and careful, Dr. Mukherjee...
'Big C' consultant Dr. Vijay Trisal
Individual.com, May 4, 2013
...are not. You might have heard of this book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer." Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote this remarkable book. ... [In it] he mentions this New York socialite who in the 1950s wanted to take out a full-page ad that she...
'Big C' consultant Dr. Vijay Trisal
Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2013
...are not. You might have heard of this book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer." Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote this remarkable book. [In it] he mentions this New York socialite who in the 1950s wanted to take out a full-page ad that she...