Gary Ruvkun

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Gary Ruvkun

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Gary Ruvkun
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

Born: 1952, Berkeley, CA, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Massaschusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Prize motivation: “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”

Prize share: 1/2

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