WORCESTER ― Victor R. Ambros could have worn anything to Monday morning's press conference at UMass Chan Medical School that honored him for winning this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine. A suit, perhaps, with a button-down shirt and tie was an option.

Nobel Prize winner Victor Ambros graduated from Woodstock High School in 1971, and earned his bachelor’s degree and doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became principal investigator at Harvard in 1985,