Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, the University of Oxford (where he received a Ph.D. studying cancer-causing viruses), and Harvard Medical School. Siddhartha trained in cancer medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School and was on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published articles and commentary in such journals as Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times and the New Republic. He lives in Boston and New York with his wife, Sarah Sze, and his daughter, Leela. --Tantor Audio