Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Mukherjee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer which earned the award in 2011 for general nonfiction and has been listed among Time magazine’s “All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books.” A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Mukherjee holds a BS in biology from Stanford University; a DPhil in immunology from Oxford University; and an MD from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Mukherjee is a hematologist and oncologist who has published articles in the journals Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Cell. Dr. Mukherjee is the scientific founder of several biotech companies, including Myeloid Therapeut, Immuneel Therapeutics, and Vor Biopharma which has been given breakthrough status by the FDA for its anti-AML treatment strategy.