The joint winners were Victor Ambros at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Gary Ruvkun at Massachusetts General Hospital for their discovery of micro-RNA (miRNA) and its role in " post-transcriptional gene regulation" .
共同获奖者为马萨诸塞大学医学院的维克多·安布罗斯 (Victor Ambros) 和马萨诸塞州总医院的加里·鲁夫昆 (Gary Ruvkun),以表彰他们发现微小核糖核酸 (miRNA) 及其在“转录后基因调控”中的作用。