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Victor Ambros

Academic Role: Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
   Program in Molecular Medicine

Biography

Victor Ambros grew up in Vermont and graduated from MIT in 1975. He did his graduate research (1976-1979) with David Baltimore at MIT, studying poliovirus genome structure and replication. He began to study the genetic pathways controlling developmental timing in the nematode C. elegans as a postdoc in H. Robert Horvitz's lab at MIT, and continued those studies while on the faculty of Harvard (1984-1992), Dartmouth (1992-2007), and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (2008-present).  In 1993, members of the Ambros lab identified the first microRNA, the product of lin-4, a heterochronic gene of C. elegans. Since then, the role of microRNAs in development has been a major focus of his research.

Office: Biotech II - Suite #306
Phone: (508) 856-6380
Fax: (508) 856-4289
E-mail: Victor.Ambros@umassmed.edu

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