Gary Ruvkun
Gary Ruvkun · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
1952, Berkeley, California, USA
United States
Gary Ruvkun is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
Gary Ruvkun, from a Jewish family in California, is a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard. Studying the tiny worm C. elegans, he and Victor Ambros discovered microRNA — very small RNA molecules that fine-tune which genes are switched on and off, a previously unknown layer of genetic control present throughout the animal kingdom. This reshaped understanding of gene regulation and disease, and they shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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