Marvin H. Caruthers

Marvin Caruthers is a biochemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and serves on the Board of Directors for ArcherDX, Inc. Caruthers was a co-founder of Amgen and Applied Biosystems.

Caruthers earned a B.S. in chemistry at Iowa State University in 1962 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry 1968 at Northwestern University. He did his postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1973 he was Assistant Professor and in 1980 Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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 in 2006, the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 2005 and the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences in 2014. From 1980 to 1981 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2017 he was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and also The National Academy of Inventors.