Frances H. Arnold

Researcher

Now Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, Caltech

Latest on AI4S.fyiTimeline · Oct 5Google DeepMind and Caltech's AlphaProtein Novo designs an enzyme that makes piperidine at 99:1, where none of 188 natural and engineered variants beat 30:70

Affiliations

Current

Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center · Caltechas of 2026-10-07feeds.library.caltech.edu ↗

Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.

Honours

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the directed evolution of enzymes2018nobelprize.org ↗

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On the timeline

2026-10-05Google DeepMind and Caltech's AlphaProtein Novo designs an enzyme that makes piperidine at 99:1, where none of 188 natural and engineered variants beat 30:70

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