NLS Nobel Prize Laureate

Victor Ambros, Professor of Molecular Medicine and the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, is one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

More than three decades after their discovery of microRNA, Professor Gary Ruvkun received the “mythic call” from Stockholm to learn that he’d been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside his erstwhile colleague Victor Ambros.

Scientific research demands years, sometimes a lifetime’s worth, of persistence. One of the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, Dr. Katalin Karikó, PhD, has shown more determination than most. Despite a series of setbacks, she forged ahead on messenger RNA research that contributed to a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus.

Drew Weissman was one of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on messenger RNA that paved the way for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Moungi Bawendi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 for his fundamental research on quantum dots, the nanoparticles that hold immense potential for a wide range of applications.

Who we are as a species is something that is both a philosophical and scientific question. The history of modern humans has continuously been shown to be much more complex than previously imagined, and thanks to the work of Svante Pääbo, we have answers to questions that may have remained unanswered.