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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী, English: Siddhartha Mukherjee) is an Indian-American physician, scientist, and writer. He is best known for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee was born into the family of Sibeshwar Mukherjee, an employee of Mitsubishi, and Chandani Mukherjee, a schoolteacher. Siddhartha spent his childhood in the Safdarjung district. At home, the family spoke Bengali and English. Mukherjee was interested in music and was an avid reader: the family library was large. He especially liked Rabindranath Tagore. Mukherjee studied at the English-language St. Columba's School in Delhi and in 1988 received the school’s highest award, the Sword of Honour. After entering Stanford University and becoming the top student in biology there, he worked in the laboratory of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Berg, where he studied the influence of cellular genes on the behavior of cancer cells.

From 1993 to 1996, Mukherjee was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in immunology, graduating from Magdalen College of that university. He then entered Harvard Medical School, where he received a Doctor of Medicine degree. He completed an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He first specialized in internal medicine and later in oncology.

Siddhartha Mukherjee holds the position of assistant professor in the medical faculty (Department of Oncology) at Columbia University in New York. At the same time, he works as an oncologist at the medical center of the same institution. He was an adjunct professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, an honorary adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and lectured at the Massachusetts Medical Society. A hematologist and oncologist, Mukherjee is known for his work on blood formation and the interaction between the microenvironment and cancer cells.

In his scientific work, Mukherjee studies, in particular, the links between normal stem cells and cancer cells. His laboratory investigates the stem cell microenvironment, with special attention to hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). These are found in the bone marrow, in a very specific microenvironment. Osteoblasts, that