Indian-American oncologist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee has made it to the longlist of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-Fiction.

It was for his book, "The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human."

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The book focuses on the emerging realm of cell therapy and its transformative impact on the treatment of serious ailments such as cancer, Alzheimer's, and AIDS.

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Dr. Mukherjee is one of 13 authors from around the world in contention for the GBP 50,000 prize.

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The judges believe that the book extensively covers the topic of cells, and consider it Dr. Mukherjee's "most spectacular book yet."

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