October 16, 2024
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
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The 2024 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology was awarded to F. William Studier of Brookhaven National Laboratory in a ceremony and symposium at the Broad Institute on September 17, 2024. The prize, created by the Merkin Family Foundation and administered by the Broad, recognizes novel technologies that have significantly improved human health and carries a $400,000 award.
May 14, 2024
2024 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform
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F. William Studier of Brookhaven National Laboratory has won the second annual Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for his development of an efficient, scalable method of producing RNA and proteins in the laboratory.
September 27, 2023
Dr. Marvin Caruthers receives the inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology in a ceremony at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Merkin prize honors Dr. Caruthers transformative work synthesizing DNA.
June 28, 2023
Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers
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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 for developing an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA.
November 29, 2022
Launch of the Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology
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.
May 23, 2022
Richard N. Merkin, MD, honored at events at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, announces Prize in Biomedical Technology to recognize innovations that impact human health
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$400,000 annual prize to first be awarded in 2023.
October 6, 2021
Richard Merkin, M.D., renews support for transformative science at Broad Institute
The Richard N. Merkin Building at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Support includes a gift to advance the Merkin Institute and the Merkin Fellows, inaugurating the Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, and establishing the Merkin Fund to support promising research in fundamental science.