The Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two US Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun | News

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Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been announced as the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation, the prize-giving organization said.

The Nobel Foundation in a statement on Monday said that the prize winners have discovered a new class of RNA molecules, which play an important role in the regulation of genes.

“Their fundamental discovery revealed an entirely new system of gene regulation that proved to be important in multicellular organisms, including humans,” the Nobel announcement said.

Ambrose conducted award-winning research at Harvard University. He is currently a professor of physiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Ruvkun’s research was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is a professor of genetics, said Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee.

Every year, the medicine prize is the first plant Nobel to be announced, and the remaining five will be revealed in the coming days.

Medical winners are selected by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute Medical University and receive a total of 11 million Swedish kroner, equivalent to $1.1 million.

Created through the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded for achievements in science, literature and peace since 1901, with economics added later.

Various institutions award prizes in various fields, and Peace is the only one awarded in Oslo rather than Stockholm, possibly because of the political union that existed between the two Nordic countries when Nobel wrote his will.

Past medical Nobel prize winners include many famous researchers such as Ivan Pavlov in 1904, best known for his behavioral experiments using dogs, and Alexander Fleming, who shared the 1945 prize for the discovery of penicillin.

Last year’s drug prize was awarded to runaway favorites Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian scientist, and his US colleague Drew Weissman, for a discovery that paved the way for a vaccine for COVID-19 that helps curb the epidemic.

Immersed in culture, the scientific, literary and economic awards are presented to the winners at a ceremony to be held on December 10, a commemoration of the death of Alfred Nobel, followed by a lavish banquet at Stockholm’s city hall.

Separate ceremonies are held for the peace prize winner in Oslo on the same day.