Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to scientists for their research on microRNA

07 October 2024 , 11:13

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Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year’s laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum during the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 7, 2024. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

Prize given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2024 has been awarded to two scientists for their work on microRNA.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. 

Announced by the Nobel assembly at Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden, the winners will share a prize of 11m Swedish kronor (about £810,000).

This year’s award is the 115th Nobel prize to be presented in physiology or medicine since 1901. Of the 229 winners, only 13 have been women.

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics will be announced on Tuesday, followed by the chemistry prize on Wednesday.

Elizabeth Baker