Frances Arnold
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born 25 July 1956) is an internationally recognized American scientist and engineer. She pioneered methods of directed evolution to create useful biological systems, including enzymes, metabolic pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and organisms. She is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she studies evolution and its applications in science, medicine, chemicals and energy.
Her work has been recognized by many awards, including 2011 Charles Stark Draper prize and the rare honor of being elected to all three National Academies in the United States - The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. She is the only woman to have been so honored. Arnold is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Institute of Biomedical Engineers.
Arnold is involved in alternative energy research, including the development of highly active enzymes (cellulases) and microorganisms to convert renewable biomass to fuels and chemicals. She co-founded Gevo, Inc. in 2005 and serves on the Science Advisory Boards of Codexis, Fluidigm and Mascoma, Inc. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
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- Arnold was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [1] in 2011
- Caltech's Frances Arnold wins Draper Prize for biofuels-related research, Greenspace January 30, 2011 [2]
- Newsmakers, Science, Volume 320, Number 5878, 16 May 2008 [3]
- M. Goho "Cellulolytic Enzymes: Frances Arnold is designing better enzymes for making biofuels from cellulose[4]."
- 10 Emerging Technologies 2008, Cellulolytic enzymes, Technology Review, p. 52, March/April 2008.
