UMass Chan congratulates Nobel Laureate Victor Ambros

The UMass Chan Medical School community came together on Oct. 16 to congratulate the co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Victor R. Ambros, PhD, and his wife, senior scientist Rosalind “Candy” Lee.
Dr. Ambros, the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine at UMass Chan, shares the Nobel Prize with his longtime collaborator, Gary Ruvkun, PhD, professor at Harvard Medical School, for their discovery of microRNA. Lee is the first author on the seminal 1993 Cell paper cited by the Nobel Committee.
Read about the campus celebration here: direc.to/mpXi