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The Merkin Prize Jury is composed of scientific leaders from academia and industry in the US and Europe.
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F. William Studier receives the 2024 Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for developing technology used to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines
The groundbreaking, scalable technology is widely used in laboratories around the world today to efficiently produce large amounts of protein and RNA.
Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA
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
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...