Gary Ruvkun Awarded the 2008 Lasker Award

September 13, 2008
Gary Ruvkun Awarded the 2008 Lasker Award

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that Gary Ruvkun has been awarded the 2008 Lasker Award for Medical Research for the discovery of "tiny RNAs that regulate gene function."  Dr. Ruvkun (MGH/Harvard Medical School) shared the award with Victor Ambros (UMass Medical School) and David Baulcombe (University of Cambridge). Read the press release.

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