Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer Physician, Researcher and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer"

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 8 p.m.
Alumni Arena, UB's North (Amherst) Campus

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is the author of "The Laws of Medicine" and "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and the inspiration behind a six-hour television documentary produced by Ken Burns, which aired on PBS in March 2015. "The Emperor of All Maladies" is a profoundly humane biography of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Mukherjee has examined cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. "The Emperor of All Maladies" provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University/New York University Presbyterian Hospital. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic.