Awards & Winners

Victor Ambros

Victor Ambros is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA. He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Awards by Victor Ambros

Check all the awards nominated and won by Victor Ambros.

2013


Keio Medical Science Prize
(Discovery of microRNAs as a new class of gene regulators.)

2009


Massry Prize
(Co-discovery of microRNA)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

2008


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For discoveries that revealed an unanticipated world of tiny RNAs that regulate gene function in plants and animals.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the discovery and characterization of micro RNA's, important in the regulation of gene function.)