Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction), The Laws of Medicine, and THE GENE: An Intimate History. A Rhodes Scholar, he received a BS in biology from Stanford University, DPhil in immunology University of Oxford, and an MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internal medicine residency and an oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, serves as the dean, chief scientific officer, and professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Nestler is best known for his revolutionary research on the molecular basis of addiction and depression. Nestler has been an advocate for integrating science with clinical practice throughout his career and has a prolific publication record publishing hundreds of reviews and papers as well as co-authoring several books. Throughout his career, Nestler has fostered collaboration across disciplines, broken down traditional silos, and accelerated discovery and innovation.