The Nobel Prize: 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros
The Nobel Prize shared a post on X:
“Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros.
This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 ‘Cell’ paper cited by the Nobel Committee.”
Tatiana Prowell reshared the above post on X, adding:
“The Nobel Prize account really tweeted “he celebrated the news of his Nobel Prize w/ his colleague & wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the 1st author on the 1993 Cell paper cited by the Nobel Committee.” His wife *the 1st author* who wasn’t awarded…”
Victor Ambros (born December 1, 1953, in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American developmental biologist and molecular geneticist celebrated for his pioneering discovery of microRNA (miRNA), which regulates gene expression. His groundbreaking work significantly advanced the understanding of cell function and gene activity, earning him the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Gary Ruvkun.
Raised in Vermont, Ambros developed a passion for science encouraged by his parents. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from MIT in 1975 and later completed his Ph.D. in genetics under David Baltimore, studying poliovirus. He continued as a postdoctoral researcher in H. Robert Horvitz’s lab, collaborating with Ruvkun on genetic factors in *Caenorhabditis elegans* development.
Tatiana M. Prowell is an Associate Professor of Oncology in the Division of Women’s Malignancies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Scientific Liaison to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She was the principal architect of FDA’s policy on accelerated approval using pathological complete response as a novel regulatory endpoint in the neoadjuvant high-risk breast cancer setting, and a member of the Biden Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Cancer Immunology Working Group.
A frequent public speaker, she is a three-time recipient of FDA’s Excellence in Communication Award. She is a past Giants of Cancer Care Award finalist, the recipient of the 2019 John and Samuel Bard Medal in Science or Medicine, and the recipient of a 2020 Webby Special Achievement Award for her effective use of social media during the pandemic. A passionate medical educator and mentor, she was Chair of the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting Education Committee.
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