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

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. Columba„s, 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. Mukherjee‟s 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
• “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

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