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Nominations for the 2026 Merkin Prize will open at 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday, August 4, 2025. Nomination deadline is Friday, December 5, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Nomination Package Requirements Contact information for nominator Nominees’ names and organizations If available, please share contact...

The groundbreaking, scalable technology is widely used in laboratories around the world today to efficiently produce large amounts of protein and RNA.

CONTACT Sarah Farris sarah@comsint.com VIDEO Link The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Dr. Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids. Cambridge, MA (June 28, 2023)—Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of...

F. William Studier was born in 1936 in Waverly, Iowa and went to Yale (BS, Biophysics, 1958), Caltech (PhD, Biophysics, 1963), and Stanford University for postdoctoral research in biochemistry. In 1964 he joined the biology department in Brookhaven National Laboratory, which he chaired from 1990...