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Thesis The Synthesis of Oligothymidylate Derivatives on Insoluble Polymer Supports (1968) Awards NAS Award in Chemical Sciences Similar Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Robert W Holley | ||
Marvin h caruthers 2006 national medal of science
Marvin H. Caruthers (born 11 September 1940) is an American biochemist who is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Caruthers earned a B.S in chemistry at the Iowa State University in 1962 and a Ph.D in Biochemistry 1968 at Northwestern University with Robert Letsinger. He did his postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Har Gobind Khorana. From 1973 he was Assistant Professor and in 1980 Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He is concerned with nucleic acids and developed with his laboratory world used methods of phosphoramidite synthesis of DNA. Using this technique, his group was able to incorporate nucleotide analogs for functional group mutagenesis for a deeper understanding of nucleic acid biochemistry. In addition to DNA, he developed in his lab and methods of RNA synthesis and DNA analogues and explores their application. He was a co-founder of Amgen and Applied Biosystems with Leroy Hood.
In 1994 Caruthers was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. He received the National Medal of Science (2006), the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society (2005) and the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2014). 1980/81 he was Guggenheim Fellow.