# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-ambros
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:26.036Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-ambros"
name: "Victor Ambros"
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description: "Victor Robert Ambros is an American developmental biologist of Polish descent, who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts 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."
tagline: "American developmental biologist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1953-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump