Siddhartha Mukherjee - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	1970
Place of Birth	New Delhi (India)
Nationality	India, United States of America
Profession	Physician, Author, Oncologist, Writer
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-born American physician, scientist and writer best known for the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. For that work he won a Pulitzer Prize and an award from The Guardian. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by TIME and one of the 100 best works of non-fiction by The New York Times Magazine. Currently he is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and staff physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. He has been the Plummer Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, the Joseph Garland lecturer at the Massachusetts Medical Society and an honorary visiting professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. A hematologist and oncologist, Mukherjee is also known for his work on the formation of blood and the interactions between the micro-environment and cancer cells. Recently Government of India has conferred its fourth highest Civilian Award Padma Shri upon Mukherjee.

Awards by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Check all the awards nominated and won by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

2011

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Honored for : The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

(An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.)

Guardian First Book Award

Honored for : The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Guardian First Book Award	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.

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