Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjeeis an Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by the magazine Time and one of the 100...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
home feels
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
cancer years ideas
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
mind needs pharmacology
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
technology leader research
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
writing discovery quality
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
cancer writing ideas
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
cancer moving connections
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
medicine cells body
Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?
cancer important age
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
cancer thinking cells
There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.
cancer believe india
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
writing paper physicians
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
cancer media hysteria
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.
cancer cells survival
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.