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In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes. Since January 2021, she serves as an external co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
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With one ingenious idea and years of subsequent work, Frances Arnold turned bioengineering upside down. Recognising that nature was “the best bioengineer in history,” she figured out how to let evolution be her partner in the lab.
Oct 3, 2018 · Frances Arnold, a Caltech professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry, received the Nobel Prize for her work on directed evolution of enzymes. She pioneered a bioengineering method that uses the principles of evolution to create new and better enzymes for various applications.
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May 10, 2024 · Frances Arnold (born July 25, 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American chemical engineer who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on directed evolution of enzymes. She shared the prize with American biochemist George P. Smith and British biochemist Gregory P. Winter.
Oct 3, 2018 · On Wednesday, Frances H. Arnold became only the fifth woman to be awarded the prize. Dr. Arnold, 62, an American professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at the...
Oct 3, 2018 · The chemical engineer devised a method to speed up and control the evolution of enzymes in the lab for greener technologies and new medicines. She shares the prize with Gregory Winter and George Smith, who pioneered phage display and humanized antibodies.
