Podcast Episodes featuring Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Getting Personal with Our Genes

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - January 28, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of the best-selling book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer." The book won a Pulitzer Prize and became the basis for a Ken Burns documentary series on the subject of cancer for PBS. In this fascinating conversation with Alan Alda, Dr. Mukh...

Amanpour: Peter Neumann, Ernest Moniz, Walter Isaacson, Peter Pomerantsev and Siddhartha Mukherjee

Amanpour - August 06, 2019 19:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Peter Neumann, author of "Bluster: Donald Trump's War on Terror", joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the definition of domestic terrorism following the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend. Peter Pomerantsev, journalist and author of "This is not Propaganda", talks about the age of...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Desert Island Discs - October 01, 2017 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
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...

Siddhartha Mukherjee with Steve Davis

Town Hall Seattle Science Series - May 22, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee returns to Town Hall to discuss his newest book The Gene: An Intimate History. Mukherjee weaves together exhaustive scientific research with intimate biographical stories to explore human heredity. Using the story of his family’s history of ment...

The Gene: Unlocking the Human Code, with Siddhartha Mukherjee

Intelligence Squared - October 07, 2016 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Genetics has revolutionised not just how we think of biology but how we think of ourselves. We are, in the words of one geneticist, the first organism that has ‘learned to read its own instructions’. Now, with the breakthrough of gene-editing technology — whose precision allows us to alter a sing...

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Genetics & Storytelling

Library Talks - August 02, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
Renowned cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee came to the Library this spring to discuss his new book “The Gene: An Intimate History,” a fascinating examination of our understanding of human heredity and its influence on our personalities, fates, and choices. In this conversation...

136 Siddhartha Mukherjee - An Intimate History of the Gene

Inquiring Minds - June 10, 2016 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 822 ratings
We talk to cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee about his latest book The Gene: An Intimate History. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds