Siddhartha Mukherjee

2011 Pulitzer Prize
Co-Founder & CEO, Manas AI
Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University

Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, DPhil, is a physician, researcher, author and entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder and CEO (with Reid Hoffman) of Manas AI, a biotechnology company pioneering the use of AI to accelerate the discovery of new medicines. Dr. Mukherjee is also an Associate Professor of Medicine from Columbia University Irving Medical Center (currently on leave). His widely lauded books and articles have made a vast contribution to the public discourse of human health, medicine and science. He is the founder of multiple biotechnology companies throughout the globe, a co-inventor of several life-saving medicines, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. 

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer earned the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and The Gene: An Intimate History was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and won international awards and was recognized by The Washington Post and The New York Times as one of the most influential books of 2016. Both books have been adapted into PBS documentaries by the renowned filmmaker Ken Burns. The Emperor of All Maladies was included among Time magazine’s and the New York Times’ 100 best nonfiction books of the past century.

As a medical scholar, Dr. Mukherjee has conducted innovative research that signals a paradigm shift in cancer pathology and has enabled the development of treatments that disrupt current pharmaceutical models toward new biological and cellular therapies. He was among the first to make cellular therapies available in India, and among the first to begin developing AI-based algorithms to discover human medicines. His groundbreaking research is now being translated into a record number of concurrent clinical trials across the globe, spanning novel therapies for ovarian, breast, and
endometrial cancer, and leukemias and lymphomas. 

Dr. Mukherjee writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work and has published his original research and opinions in journals such as Nature, Cell, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

A native of India, Dr. Mukherjee received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. After graduating from Harvard Medical School, he completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and his hematology-oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.