Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician, researcher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who tells the human stories behind cancer, genes and cells.
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- Work
- Author, cancer physician and researcher
- Education
- Stanford University, University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School
- Academic home
- Columbia University
- Breakout
- The Emperor of All Maladies (2010), winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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How it started.
Mukherjee grew up in India and studied biology at Stanford, working in Nobel laureate Paul Berg’s lab. A Rhodes Scholarship took him to Oxford for his D.Phil.; he then earned his medical degree at Harvard in 2000. He joined Columbia’s hematology and oncology faculty in 2009.
From the clinic to the page.
During his fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he wrote journal entries between shifts to process the experience of treating cancer patients. Those notes grew into The Emperor of All Maladies, published in 2010. Its 2011 Pulitzer Prize helped introduce a wider audience to his blend of medical history and patient stories.
Genes, cells and uncertainty.
He followed that cancer biography with The Laws of Medicine, The Gene and The Song of the Cell. His books connect scientific discovery with the people living through it. The Gene also draws on his own family’s history of mental illness.
What he is building now.
Alongside his writing and Columbia work, he co-founded Manas AI, which uses artificial intelligence in drug discovery. He returned to The Emperor of All Maladies with four new chapters in 2025 and has discussed the updated science in interviews and podcasts.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2022The Song of the CellAuthor
- 2016The GeneAuthor
- 2015The Laws of MedicineAuthor
- 2010The Emperor of All MaladiesAuthor
Awards
Quotes
The book is a journey, after all.Siddhartha Mukherjee, Harvard Medicine
In a January 2026 interview, he explained why he added four chapters to The Emperor of All Maladies.
Trivia
- He worked in Paul Berg’s laboratory as a Stanford undergraduate.
- Lewis Thomas’s The Youngest Science helped inspire the questions behind The Laws of Medicine.
- He publishes corrections to the first edition of The Song of the Cell on his own website.
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