Gary Ruvkun
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
Professor of Harvard Medical School,Fellow of Massachusetts General Hospital
Election motivation
For the discovery and application of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, and for advances in surveillance of translation in immunity and aging of RNAi and leadership in the development of RNAi screen for human gene inactivations.
Field of research
Genetics
Born
1952, Berkeley, CA, USA
Main Honors
Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in October 2024
Received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2015
Elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2010
Elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009
Elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2009
Elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008
Received the Lasker Medical Research Award in 2008
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences