Siddhartha Mukherjee is a pioneering physician, oncologist, and author. A profoundly influential voice in the scientific community, he is best known for his books, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which earned him the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene: An Intimate History, which won international awards and was recognized by The Washington Post and The New York Times as one of the most influential books of 2016. The Emperor of All Maladies was adapted into a documentary by Ken Burns and included among Time’s 100 best nonfiction books of the past century.