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How does a scientific innovation become a world-changing success story? Innovator, scientist and Millennium Technology Prize winner Frances Arnold shares her insights
When someone has won the Nobel Prize and the Millennium Technology Prize (among others), holds more than 60 U.S. patents and has co-founded several companies, it would be easy to assume they’ve been a prolific genius since birth. However, Frances Arnold says that early on, she was just as confused about her career path as the next person.Read more ›
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Professor Frances Arnold: Reinventing Evolution
The 2016 Millennium Technology Prize winner, Frances Arnold, reflects on her extraordinary work in the field of directed evolution In 1859, Charles Darwin published the theory of natural selection, exploring…Read more ›
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Artificial Carbon Sinks Explained
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an essential element of life. It is in the air we breathe and plants need it to photosynthesise and grow. Too much CO2 in the air,…Read more ›
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Supergraph: MUSCLE SUPPORT WITH EXOSKELETONS
Wearable, external exoskeletons make workingin difficult positions easier. Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most common reasons for sick leave and early retirement. If work conditions cannot be changed, the exertion…Read more ›
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Blog: Into the Unknown – Why Blue-Sky Research is Vital for Scientific Breakthroughs
Millennium Technology Prize winners Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor David Klenerman discuss the enormous value of researching without an agenda – and the need to fund it properly The response by…Read more ›
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DNA sequencing pioneers win the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize
British duo Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor David Klenerman have been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.Their Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology means…Read more ›
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New human organs made with Millennium Technology Prize winning innovation
Robert Langer is an American professor credited with the development of delivery systems that allow the administration of drugs to a specific tissue or place in the body. His methods…Read more ›
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The technology behind LEDs illuminates, cools and even finds cancer cells
Shūji Nakamura, an American professor born in Japan, received the Millennium Technology Prize in 2006 for his work in developing LED technology. Thanks to his work, many of the devices…Read more ›
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Frances Arnold is the third Millennium Tech Prize winner to receive the Nobel prize
The 2016 Millennium Technology Prize winner Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry and is now the third person to have won these two prestigious prizes.Read more ›
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Arnold’s MTP innovation thriving: medicines and fuels with natural selection
American biochemist Frances Arnold was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for her research on directed evolution in 2016. Arnold has developed a new and quick method for modifying proteins that mimics natural selection in a laboratory setting.Read more ›
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