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To nominate individuals and/or teams for the Merkin Prize, please confirm you've reviewed the eligibility requirements and then fill out the nomination form below. FAQs can be viewed here. For additional questions or technical difficulties, contact merkinprize@broadinstitute.org. Nomination Deadline...

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...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT David Cameron, Broad Institute dcameron@broadinstitute.org 617-714-7184 Janet Janjigian, Carmen Group janjigianj@carmengroup.com 424-354-0133 Merkin Prize honors Dr. Caruthers’ transformative work synthesizing DNA September 27, 2023 (Cambridge, MA.)—Dr. Richard Merkin...

CONTACT Karen Zusi-Tran kzusi@broadinstitute.org Cambridge, MA (November 29, 2022) — Nominations are now open for the first award of the Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health. Each year, the prize will celebrate a novel...