Winner: F. William Studier awarded Merkin Prize
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F. William Studier. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
F. William Studier, a former Stony Brook resident who relocated to California after his retirement in 2015, has received the 2024 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for his development of an efficient, scalable method of producing RNA and proteins. The prize is administered by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and includes a $400,000 cash award. Studier is a senior biophysicist emeritus at Brookhaven National Laboratory, which he joined in 1964, and a former biochemistry adjunct professor at Stony Brook University.
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