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READING TUgether 2013 First-Year Seminar Summer Bridge Program Siddhartha Mukherjee Oncologist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Created by students in Dr. Robert Blystone's First-Year Seminar, Fall 2013, Trinity University

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  • 1. READING TUgether 2013 First-Year Seminar Summer Bridge Program Siddhartha Mukherjee Oncologist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

2. The Beginnings Born in New Delhi, India 1970 3. Early Education Attended St. Columbas, an English Catholic school Gowardhan Das Memorial Declamation Contest participant 4. Early Interests Calcutta Book Stalls Young Mukherjee with his family at the Statue of Liberty 5. Academic Prowess Scored a 1580 out of 1600 SAT Math Distribution 2010 6. Why Stanford? Paul Berg Nobel Prize Winner (1980) in Chemistry David Starr Jordan Scholar 7. Activities at Stanford University Staff-Writer for the Stanford Daily Member of Stanford Indian Music Group Teaching Assistant Residential Advisor Phi Beta Kappa 8. Rhodes Scholarship - 1993 Alain Townsend 1993-1995 9. Academic Involvement at Oxford Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Completed Ph.D. research in immunology in 2 years 10. Mukherjees Oxford Research Focused primarily on the inside out question The Processing and Presentation of Viral Antigens 11. Harvard Medical School (1995-2000) Specialized in Cancer and Stem Cell research (oncology) 12. Doctor in Practice Completed internship at 2001 Completed residency in 2003 Fellowship at Dana Farber Institute 13. The Origin of His Book Im willing to go on, but before I go on I need to know what it is that Im battling. -Mukherjees patient 14. Book Published in 2010 15. Awards & Honors 2011 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award In Time magazines All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books 16. Currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Studies acute myeloid leukemia Columbia Medical Center 17. Family Lives with his wife, artist Sarah Sze; and his two children, Aria and Leela 18. Enjoy! 19. Primary Reference Siddhartha Mukherjee. (2012). Biology Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) web. 14 August. 2012