2024: Know Who is Victor Ambros, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine?
Ambrose was born in New Hampshire. His father, Longgin, was a Polish war hero. Victor grew up in a family of eight children on a small token farm in Hartland, Vermont, and attended Woodstock Union High School. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ambrose received a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in biology in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in biology in 1979.
His doctoral supervisor was David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Ambrose continued his research at MIT as his first postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of future Nobel laureate H. Robert Horwitz.
Victor R. Ambrose is an American developmental biologist and Nobel laureate who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ambrose received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024 for his research on microRNAs.
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