Victor Ambros
Born: 1 December 1953, Hanover, NH, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”
Prize share: 1/2
Gary Ruvkun
Born: 1952, Berkeley, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”
Prize share: 1/2
Svante Pääbo
Born: 20 April 1955, Stockholm, Sweden
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
Prize motivation: “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”
Prize share: 1/1
(with acknowledgements to Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Applied Undergraduate Research Skills. University of Reading, UK)