--- description: Find out why Siddhartha Mukherjee is on the TIME100 Health 2026 list. title: TIME100 Health: Siddhartha Mukherjee image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4045f14001645fb/6998ce4dc8dcb4bea4b50f13/T100-Health-2026-Mukherjee.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Feb 11, 2026 # Siddhartha Mukherjee Understanding cancer by [Angela Haupt](/author/angela-haupt/) ## Angela Haupt Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Courtesy of Siddhartha Mukherjee In 2025, 15 years after Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer-winning book, _The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer_, was first published, he updated it, adding four new chapters about detection, prevention, treatment, and overall understanding of the disease. “I felt an urgent need,” says Mukherjee, an oncologist, “because much of what we know about cancer had changed.” In another 15 years, he expects AI will have played a key role in developing new treatments that are more precise and less expensive. It’s why last year, he teamed up with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman to launch Manas AI, a startup using AI to aid drug discovery. “Manas has discovered medicines that were unimaginable in terms of their chemical composition,” he says. “And within six months, we have probably virtually screened or created virtual medicines that number in the hundreds of thousands, and we will get into the millions.” Only a small fraction will be synthesized as real chemicals and tested against cancer cells, but Mukherjee considers these capabilities a “massive turning point” that inspires newfound hope and potential. TIME100 Health: Siddhartha Mukherjee ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362618/siddhartha-mukherjee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362618/siddhartha-mukherjee/"},"headline":"Siddhartha Mukherjee","datePublished":"2026-02-11T13:01:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:18:28.181Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362618/siddhartha-mukherjee/","keywords":["TIME100 Health 2026","list","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4045f14001645fb/6998ce4dc8dcb4bea4b50f13/T100-Health-2026-Mukherjee.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Angela Haupt","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/angela-haupt/"}],"creator":"Angela Haupt","articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4045f14001645fb/6998ce4dc8dcb4bea4b50f13/T100-Health-2026-Mukherjee.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-health-2026/","name":"TIME100 Health 2026"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362618/siddhartha-mukherjee/","name":"Siddhartha Mukherjee"}}]}] ```