UMass, Mass General researchers win 2024 Nobel Prize in medicine

A researcher at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor at Worcester-based University of Massachusetts Medical School have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Victor Ambros, PhD, and Gary Ruvkun, PhD, discovered microRNA, which is crucial in gene regulation, according to an Oct. 7 news release from The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden.

This discovery “revealed a completely new principle of gene regulation that turned out to be essential for multicellular organisms, including humans,” the release said.

Dr. Ambros is a professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Ruvkun is a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School.

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