Frances Arnold Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Frances Arnold is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Provivi. Dr. Arnold is a Co-Founder & serves as Board Member at Aralez Bio. She serves as Board Member & Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Alphabet. She also serves as a Board Member at Illumina. She serves as a Venture Partner at Catalio Capital Management. A professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, she is a pioneer of "directed evolution", a method of biological design that is a cornerstone of many industrial and biotechnological innovations. Her contributions to science and engineering have been recognized by numerous awards and honors, including the Draper Prize in 2011, the 2011 National Medal of Technology, and election to the three U.S. National Academies. She co-founded Gevo and has served as a scientific advisor to notable biotech companies, including Maxygen, Codexis, Amyris, Mascoma, and Fluidigm. She currently advises Genomatica. She also serves as a Board Member and member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Alphabet. She also serves as an Advisor at Angeleno Group.