Janssen Award ceremony honors Ambros
| By Jim Fessenden | September 7, 2012 |
| UMass Medical School Communications | |
Last night, Johnson & Johnson honored Victor R. Ambros, PhD, the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, as co-winner of the 2012 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research in a ceremony and scientific symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. Dr. Ambros received the award with long-time collaborator Gary Ruvkun, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, for their collaborative discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) as central regulators of gene expression and development.
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Ambros receives Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
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