mukherjee biography narrated
TRANSCRIPT
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