The NAI Fellow Profile: An Interview with Dr. Esther Takeuchi

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INTRODUCTION As a part of our continuing mission to honor academic invention and inventors, Technology and Innovation (T&I) is pleased to present Dr. Frances Arnold, renowned biochemist and chemical engineer, as the subject of this issue’s NAI Fellow Profile. Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and the director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center at the California Institute of Technology. Arnold holds a B.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. After completing postdoctoral work in chemistry at UC Berkeley and Caltech, she became a faculty member at Caltech, where she remains today. She is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters, commentaries, and reviews; the editor of three books; and inventor on 49 U.S. patents. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Charles Stark Draper Prize, as well as one of the rare scholars who has achieved the distinction of being elected to