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Dr.

Gary B. Ruvkun

Harvard Medical School
Molecular geneticist; Educator; Academic laboratory scientist and administrator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Elected
2009
Professor of Genetics. Codiscovered micro-RNAs, showed that micro-RNAs regulated gene expression in the nematode C. elegans, demonstrated their existence in mammals and codiscovered their molecular mechanism of action. Codiscovered an insulin-like signaling pathway in worms responsible for the metabolic control of aging and identified its key transcription factor.
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