Gary Ruvkun

Awards

1. 2008

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For the discovery and characterization of micro RNA's, important in the regulations of gene function.

2. 2008

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For discoveries that revealed an unanticipated world of tiny RNAs that regulate gene function in plants and animals.

3. 2014

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for The discovery of microRNA as central regulators of gene expression in health and disease.

4. 2024

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation