Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California)[1] is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston.[2] Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which lin-4, the first microRNA (miRNA) discovered by Victor Ambros, regulates the translation of target messenger RNAs via imperfect base-pairing to those targets, and discovered the second miRNA, let-7, and that it is conserved across animal phylogeny, including in humans. These miRNA discoveries revealed a new world of RNA regulation at an unprecedented small size scale, and the mechanism of that regulation. Ruvkun also discovered many features of insulin-like signaling in the regulation of aging and metabolism.
He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics...
(co-recipient with GaryRuvkun and David Baulcombe) 2008: The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (co-recipient with GaryRuvkun and David Baulcombe)...
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fixation (nif) and for nodulation (nod) were cloned in the early 1980s by GaryRuvkun and Sharon R. Long in Frederick M. Ausubel's laboratory. In most bacteria...
Dennis J. Slamon, Harry F. Noller, Thomas A. Steitz 2008 Victor Ambros, GaryRuvkun, Harald zur Hausen, Nahum Sonenberg, Samuel Weiss 2009 Peter Walter,...
Sciences in 2004 Co-recipient (with Victor Ambros, Craig Mello, and GaryRuvkun) of Brandeis University's Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished...
RNAs that regulate gene function in plants and animals. David Baulcombe GaryRuvkun Clinical Akira Endo The discovery of the statins – drugs with remarkable...
(1996) Video (24:32): "Migration of Life in the Universe" on YouTube – GaryRuvkun, 2019. Portals: Astronomy Biology Evolutionary biology Geology Paleontology...
Coen Brothers Future – Ageing: Facing the Challenge Cynthia Kenyon, GaryRuvkun 2012 Past – History/Biography Robert Conquest, Sir Martin Gilbert Present...
complementary mRNA targets." University of Massachusetts Medical School GaryRuvkun (b. 1952) United States Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical...
O'Brien Joshua B. Plotkin Mark Ptashne Robert M. Pringle Reed C. Rollins GaryRuvkun Thomas W. Schoener William Schopf Carla J. Shatz Robert Tjian Stephen...
and Honorary Horwitz Prize to Rosalind Franklin 2009 Victor R. Ambros, GaryRuvkun 2010 Thomas J. Kelly, Bruce Stillman 2011 Jeffrey C. Hall (2017 Physiology...
W. Myers, James Bustillo, Jonathan M. Rothberg, Maria T. Zuber, and GaryRuvkun. Astrobiology. June 2013, 13(6) 560-569. doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0923 Anbar...
Sciences in 2005. Co-recipient (with Victor Ambros, Andrew Fire and GaryRuvkun) of Brandeis University's Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished...
Computer and Cognitive Science 2008 Arun Phadke Electrical Engineering 2008 GaryRuvkun Life Science 2008 Frederick Smith Bower Award for Business Leadership...
proteins that control the protein expression mechanism and their operation. GaryRuvkun Victor Ambros United States; United States for the discovery of the...
Reiser Allan L. Reiss Mary V. Relling John A. Rich Griffin P. Rodgers GaryRuvkun William M. Sage Clifford B. Saper Amita Sehgal Joe V. Selby Lawrence...
Yamanaka received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 2009 GaryRuvkun and Victor Ambros for their work in the field of Micro RNA 2010 Randy...
of Massachusetts; David Baulcombe, PhD, University of Cambridge; and GaryRuvkun, PhD, Harvard University 2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier, Helmholtz Centre...
(President of the European Research Council ERC and Director of EMBO), GaryRuvkun (Harvard University), and Nobel prize winner Eric Kandel. Core scientific...
by the Franklin Institute 2008 co-recipient (with Victor Ambros and GaryRuvkun) of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 2008 appointed...
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