An Evening with Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, at the Lee & Nile Albright Annual Symposium
Join Pulitzer Prize–winning author and cancer physician Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee for the Lee & Nile Albright Annual Symposium, a conversation on the past, present, and future of medicine and on why trust in science matters.
Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 6:30 PM
In The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Dr. Mukherjee told the story of one of humanity's oldest and most formidable diseases. It is a story of centuries of false starts, bold experiments, stubborn researchers, and patients who put their trust in science when they had little else. Today, advances in genetics, immunology, and data are changing how we understand, detect, and treat cancer. But progress depends on more than discovery. It depends on trust between scientists, doctors, and the people they serve.
Join us at the Museum of Science, Boston, for this symposium, where Dr. Mukherjee will share what the history of cancer teaches us about how science works: how it advances through trial and error, how it corrects itself, and why it deserves our trust. He'll also look at where science is headed and what it means for all of us.
Don't miss this extraordinary evening of science, medicine, and storytelling with one of the most celebrated voices in science writing.
Featuring; Siddhartha Mukherjee
Pulitzer Prize–winning Author and Cancer Physician; Hematologist and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in New Delhi, India. He holds a BS in biology from Stanford University, a DPhil in immunology from Oxford University (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency and an oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. His other books include The Gene: An Intimate History and The Song of the Cell. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, artist Sarah Sze, and their two daughters.
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