Victor Ambros

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Full Name	Victor Ambros
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1953(1953-12-01)
Age	71
Birthplace	Hanover
Country	Germany
Birth City	Lower Saxony
Horoscope	Aquarius

Victor Ambros Biography

Victor Ambros is one of the most popular and richest Geneticist who was born on December 1, 1953 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Victor R. Ambros (born 1953, Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 2000, another C. elegans small RNA regulatory molecule, let-7, was characterized by the Ruvkun lab and found to be conserved in many species, including vertebrates. These discoveries confirmed that Ambros had in fact discovered a class of small RNAs with conserved functions. These molecules are now known as microRNA. Ambros was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Victor Ambros Net Worth

Victor Ambros is one of the richest Geneticist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Victor Ambros 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ambros was born in New Hampshire. His father was a Polish war refugee and Victor grew up on a small dairy farm in Vermont in a family of eight children, and went to school at Woodstock Union High School. He received his BS in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and completed his PhD in 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Nobel laureate David Baltimore. Ambros continued his research at MIT as the first postdoctoral fellow in the lab of future Nobel laureate H. Robert Horvitz. He became a faculty member at Harvard University in 1984 and moved to Dartmouth College in 1992. Ambros joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2008, and currently holds the title of Silverman Professor of Natural Sciences in the program in Molecular Medicine.

In 1993, Ambros and his co-workers Rosalind Lee and Rhonda Feinbaum reported in the journal Cell that they had discovered single-stranded non-protein- coding regulatory RNA molecules in the organism C. elegans. Previous research, including work by Ambros and Horvitz, had revealed that a gene known as lin-4 was important for normal larval development of C. elegans, a nematode often studied as a model organism. Specifically, lin-4 was responsible for the progressive repression of the protein LIN-14 during larval development of the worm; mutant worms deficient in lin-4 function had persistently high levels of LIN-14 and displayed developmental timing defects. However, the mechanism for control of LIN-14 remained unknown.

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I Ranked on the list of most popular Geneticist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Victor Ambros celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.

Top Facts about Victor Ambros

1. Victor Ambros is an American developmental biologist born in 1953.
2. He co-discovered microRNAs, small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression.
3. Ambros received his PhD from MIT in 1984.
4. He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
5. Ambros was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006.
6. His research has implications for cancer and other diseases.
7. Ambros has published over 200 scientific papers.
8. He has been recognized with numerous awards and honors.
9. Ambros is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
10. He continues to conduct groundbreaking research in molecular biology and genetics.