2017.10.01 西达塔-穆克吉 癌症专家

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer specialist. His biography of the disease, The Emperor of All Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. A haematologist and oncologist by training, his research focuses on cancer therapy and gene functions related to blood cells. His latest book, The Gene, goes in search of normality, identity, variation and heredity.

Born in India in 1970 he grew up with his extended family in Delhi. In his youth he trained as an Indian classical singer before travelling to the US to study biology at Stanford. At Oxford he was a Rhodes scholar before enrolling at Harvard to study medicine. He is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Centre.



西达塔-穆克吉是一位癌症专家。他的疾病传记《百病之王》(The Emperor of All Maladies)于2010年获得普利策奖。作为一名血液学家和肿瘤学家，他的研究重点是癌症治疗和与血细胞有关的基因功能。他的新书《基因》（The Gene）是为了寻找常态、特性、变异和遗传。

他于1970年出生在印度，与他的大家庭在德里长大。年轻时，他曾接受过印度古典歌手的培训，然后前往美国，在斯坦福大学学习生物学。在牛津大学，他是罗兹奖学金获得者，然后进入哈佛大学学习医学。他目前是哥伦比亚大学医学中心的医学助理教授。