Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator
Silverman Professor of Natural Sciences
Program in Molecular Medicine

victor.ambros@umassmed.edu
(508) 856-5723

Ambros CV

Victor Ambros 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 UMass Chan 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.