In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning physician, biologist, and author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, joins Matthew to discuss the importance of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit: the cell. He explains why the cell is so important when it comes to understanding the human body, medical science - and the story of life itself. 

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and 'The Laws of Medicine' and , The Gene: An Intimate History. His latest book is, The Song of the Cell. 

A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA. 

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