A researcher at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has received a Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA. Victor Ambros, on the UMass faculty since 2008, and Gary Ruvkun, o

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win award for physiology or medicine - American scientists behind ‘revolutionary’ works to pick up awards

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, has received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that regulate the activities of genes in plants and animals, including humans.