The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
Awarded on: 2024-10-07
"for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"
Affiliations:
- UMass Chan Medical School – Worcester, MA, USA
Victor Ambros
Born: 1953-12-01 in Hanover, NH, USA
Gender: male
Field: American developmental biologist (born 1953)
Biography
Victor R. Ambros is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ambros received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024 for his research on microRNA.