THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE 2024
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. They discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation,” Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said on Monday during the announcement ceremony.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun’s groundbreaking discovery revealed a completely new principle ..of gene regulation that turned out to be essential for multicellular organisms, including humans.