Victor Ambros — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024 for his research on microRNA.
Currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA).
Completed his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Served as a faculty member at Harvard University starting in 1984 and Dartmouth College starting in 1992.

Biography

Victor Robert Ambros, born in New Hampshire on December 1, 1953, is an American developmental biologist. He grew up on a dairy farm in Hartland, Vermont, and attended Woodstock Union High School. Ambros completed his undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1975, and his doctoral studies, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in biology in 1979, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.