"BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation," posted The Nobel Prize on X, formerly X.
According to media reports, the prizes, which are being announced from October 7 to 14, come with an award of 11 million Swedish crowns.
Who are Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun?
Victor Ambros was born in 1953 in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, in 1979, where he also conducted postdoctoral research from 1979 to 1985. In 1985, he assumed the role of Principal Investigator at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
From 1992 to 2007, he served as a Professor at Dartmouth Medical School and is currently the Silverman Professor of Natural Science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.
Gary Ruvkun was born in 1952 in Berkeley, California, USA. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1982 and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, from 1982 to 1985. He later became a Principal Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.