READING TUgether 2013

First -Year Seminar

Summer Bridge Program

Siddhartha MukherjeeOncologist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Beginnings

• Born in New Delhi, India• 1970

Early Education

• Attended St. Columba„s, an English Catholic school• Gowardhan Das Memorial Declamation Contest participant

Early Interests

Calcutta Book Stalls

Young Mukherjee with his family at the Statue of Liberty

Academic Prowess

• Scored a 1580 out of 1600

SAT Math Distribution 2010

Why Stanford?

• Paul Berg• Nobel Prize Winner (1980)

in Chemistry

• David Starr Jordan Scholar

Activities at Stanford University

• Staff-Writer for the Stanford Daily

• Member of Stanford Indian Music Group

• Teaching Assistant

• Residential Advisor

• Phi Beta Kappa

Rhodes Scholarship - 1993

Alain Townsend• 1993-1995

Academic Involvement at Oxford

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

• Completed Ph.D. research in immunology in 2 years

Mukherjee‟s Oxford Research

• Focused primarily on the “inside out” question

• The Processing and Presentation of Viral Antigens

Harvard Medical School (1995-2000)

• Specialized in Cancer and Stem Cell research(oncology)

Doctor in Practice

• Completed internship at 2001

• Completed residency in 2003

• Fellowship at Dana – Farber Institute

The Origin of His Book

• “I’m willing to go on, but before I go on I need to know what it is that I’m battling.”

-Mukherjee’s patient

Book Published in 2010

Awards & Honors

• 2011 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

• In Time magazines All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books

Currently…

• Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University

• Studies acute myeloid leukemia

Columbia Medical Center

Family

• Lives with his wife, artist Sarah Sze; and his two children, Aria and Leela

Enjoy!

Primary Reference

“Siddhartha Mukherjee.” (2012). Biology Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) web. 14 August. 2012