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The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee ISBN 9781508279327

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This book by Siddhartha Mukherjee came up once on Andrew Huberman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dr. Alex Marson. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Avoiding, Treating & Curing Cancer | Dr. Alex Marson

“I would highly recommend”
“if anyone's really interested, I would highly recommend the this book The Emperor of All Maladies, which is a which is really a biography of cancer”— Dr. Alex Marson

The guest here is Dr. Alex Marson: Physician-scientist at UCSF and director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology. He develops CRISPR-engineered T cell therapies to cure cancers and treat autoimmune disease, and co-founded Arsenal Biosciences. Immunologist Dr. Alex Marson explains how the immune system, CRISPR, and engineered T cells are turning cancer treatment into precision biology.

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