Victor Robert Ambros is an American developmental biologist, who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the UMass Chan Medical School. He completed both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ambros received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024 for his research on microRNA. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024, announced October 7, 2024. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”. Victor Ambros: born 1953, Hanover, NH, USA. Gary Ruvkun: born 1952, Berkeley, CA, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).