Victor Ambros

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Victor Ambros is an American molecular biologist from Vermont, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He received the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2008 for the discovery and identification of single-stranded RNA molecules later called microRNA.[1]

Since 2007 Dr. Ambros is also a member of the National Academy of Science.

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  1. ^ "Victor Ambros"The Gairdner Foundation (Retrieved on May 25, 2008)