Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers (VIDEO)
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Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has won the inaugural Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology. 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. The chemical reactions that he discovered to accurately and quickly assemble nucleotides into strands of DNA provided an essential element in the development of modern molecular medicine. Today, scientists use these reactions to produce customizable DNA and RNA molecules that enable genetic sequencing, drug and vaccine development, pathogen tests, cancer diagnostics, and many aspects of basic biomedical research.
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