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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Scientific Co-Founder, Faeth Therapeutics

Search every verified Siddhartha Mukherjee interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Siddhartha Mukherjee, scientific co-founder of Faeth Therapeutics, appeared on the podcast The Long Run in May 2022 to discuss the company's approach to cancer treatment. He described Faeth as focused on combining specific nutritional interventions with drugs to alter cancer cell biochemistry, making tumors more sensitive and less resistant to therapy. Mukherjee distinguished the company from traditional precision nutrition firms, stating its goal is not weight loss or general health management but targeted metabolic reprogramming in cancer patients. Mukherjee also addressed the practical challenges of dietary interventions in clinical trials, noting that providing meals directly to patients helps ensure adherence and enables researchers to assess whether the diet is effective. He expressed confidence in the underlying science, stating that the mechanism involves keeping insulin levels low, as insulin can drive tumor growth, and he anticipated clinical data within a few years to support broader adoption of the approach.

Recent appearances

  • The New Science of Cancer: A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee (Ep. 485)

    July 14, 2026 · 📺 Sam Harris

    Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the science of cancer. They discuss the updated edition of The Emperor of All Maladies, whether cancer is one disease or many, why prevention is so hard, inflammation and air pollution as carcinogens, the myth that cell phones cause cancer, liquid biopsies and Bayesian reasoning, immunotherapy and CAR T cells, drug pricing, the promise of AI in drug discovery, the state of American medical science, and other topics. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell; The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; and Th…

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  • Ep113: Lewis Cantley & Siddhartha Mukherjee on Fighting Cancer with Food and Drugs

    June 11, 2025 · 📺 The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

    Lewis Cantley and Siddhartha Mukherjee, co-founders of Faeth Therapeutics, on fighting cancer with food and drug combinations.

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  • Siddhartha Mukherjee (physician & biologist) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

    September 01, 2024 · 📺 Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

    Siddhartha Mukherjee is an author, biologist, and physician. Siddhartha joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how the evolution of cells can advance medical technology, how some body parts can reject cancer cells, and how the view of the opioid epidemic has changed. Siddhartha and Dax talk about where the idea of reclaiming one's identity came from, what it means to be an insider or outsider of a certain group, and the differences between RNA and DNA. Siddhartha explains the different ways to organize a book, why he doesn't own a television, and how cells communicate with each other in the huma…

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  • Siddhartha Mukherjee on the future of disease and diagnostics

    November 15, 2023 · 📺 Reid Hoffman

    Will artificial intelligence change what it means to be human? Cancer physician, researcher, and author Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the podcast to help rethink how we understand human health—and the ways AI can help. Sid talks about using AI to emancipate patients from disease as well as enhance patient health and wellbeing. He also discusses the risks that come along with incorporating AI into the medical world and how new technologies in medicine are ushering in a “new human.” Plus, Sid and Reid pose a thought exercise: if there were five spots on a spaceship about to be sent off to restart h…

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  • Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    October 06, 2023 · 📺 Author Events

    Recorded October 5, 2023 In conversation with Carl H. June, MD, Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania Siddhartha Mukherjee won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for The Emperor of All Maladies, a “meticulously researched, panoramic history” (The Boston Globe) of humankind’s fight against cancer. It was awarded the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, was named to numerous media outlets’ “Best of the Year” lists, and was adapted by Ken Burns into a PBS documentary. Mukherjee is also the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller The…

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  • What is the evolutionary drive for multicellular life | Peter Attia & Siddhartha Mukherjee

    August 20, 2023 · 📺 Peter Attia MD

    Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://bit.ly/4c602k2 Watch the full episode:    • 244 ‒ The history of the cell, cell therap...   Become a member to receive exclusive content: https://bit.ly/3O0pEnY This clip is from episode #244 ‒ The history of the cell, cell therapy, gene therapy, and more | Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D. In this episode, Peter is joined by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a physician, biologist, and author. In this clip, we discuss: Why do we exist? Multicellular evolution from single-celled organisms Why single-celled organisms rule the world The extinction of…

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  • Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee @ Cellicon Valley 2023

    July 26, 2023 · 📺 IMMUNEEL CELLTALK

    Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (Co-founder & Board Director, Immuneel) presenting at the Plenary session on 'Crossing Borders in Cellular Therapies'

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  • 244 ‒ The history of the cell, cell therapy, gene therapy, and more | Siddhartha Mukherjee

    February 27, 2023 · 📺 Peter Attia MD

    Watch the full episode and view show notes here: http://bit.ly/3krhSr0 Become a member to receive exclusive content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/ Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/ We discuss: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:08 - How the cell brings the genome to life, and how Sid’s recent book fits into his prior work to tell a story 0:09:13 - How the germ theory of disease and an understanding of the cell fueled a big leap in medicine 0:18:46 - What is the evolutionary drive for multicellular life? 0:29:21 - Four types of cell therapies and the cha…

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  • Genomics in the Post-Genome Era by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. DPhil

    December 08, 2022 · 📺 Danaher Corporation

    In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look into their hand-made microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that alters both biology and medicine forever. It is the fact that complex, living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, ourselves are built from these compartments. Hooke christens them “cells.” The discovery of cells enabled the birth of a new type of medicine: Genomic Medicine. A hip fracture, cardiac arrest, Alzheime…

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  • Starving cancer cells without starving YOU - With Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

    November 09, 2022 · 📺 AI and Healthcare

    Starving cancer cells without starving YOU | TARGET: Cancer Podcast | Ep. 30 Our guest this week is Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a physician, researcher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Dr. Mukherjee and Dr. Juneja talk about a new approach to fighting cancer, by analyzing the internal metabolism of the cancer cell so that we can prevent cancer growth by starving it. Dr. Mukherjee shares his learnings on how specific diets - targeting amino acids and other nutrients - in combination with other therapies, can help patients control their cancer. - - -TimeStamps - - - - 00:00 Introduction 03:53 Cancer…

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  • Instigators of Change | Siddhartha Mukherjee and Anand Parikh On A New Way To Fight Cancer

    September 21, 2022 · 📺 Khosla Ventures

    More than 50 years ago, President Nixon announced a moonshot to cure cancer. But the cure never came. More than half a million Americans still die from cancer every single year. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and cancer physician Siddhartha Mukherjee says that, in some ways, the scientific community has failed - and it must embrace new approaches. One of the most promising of those approaches, he believes, is to starve cancer of the nutrients it needs. We speak with Mukherjee, a co-founder of Faeth Therapeutics, along with its CEO, Anand Parikh, about how to turn food into medicine, the results…

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  • Siddhartha Mukherjee says mRNA technology provides new path to inciting immune system against cancer

    October 21, 2021 · 📺 Washington Post Live

    “The mRNA vaccines allow us to find a completely new way of inciting or exciting the immune system against cancer.”

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