Charles Joel Arntzen was born on 1941 and is a plant molecular biologist.
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17 Facts About Charles Arntzen
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In 2017, Charles Arntzen retired from Arizona State University as an emeritus professor.
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Charles Arntzen had been appointed to the Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Endowed Chair at ASU in Tempe in 2000.
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Charles Arntzen began his academic career in 1969 at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and jointly held an appointment as a scientist in the US Department of Agriculture.
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Charles Arntzen was awarded a Doctor of Philosophiae honoris causa.
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Charles Arntzen was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
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Charles Arntzen is a foreign fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.
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Charles Arntzen was a member of the executive committee of the board of governors of The University of Chicago for Argonne National Laboratory and served as chairperson of their science and technology advisory committee.
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Charles Arntzen served as chairman of the National Biotechnology Policy Board of the National Institutes of Health, as chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Biobased Industrial Products and on the National Research Council's Committee on Space Biology and Medicine.
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Charles Arntzen served for eight years on the editorial board of SCIENCE.
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Charles Arntzen served as a distinguished advisor on the Council for Biotechnology and was on the board of directors of the National Center for Genome Resources.
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Charles Arntzen's research focus spans plant cell-molecular biology and protein engineering.
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Charles Arntzen was an early proponent of using plant biotechnology to enhance food quality and value, to express pharmacologically active products in plants, and to overcome health and agricultural constraints in the developing world.
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Charles Arntzen is a pioneer in the development of plant-based vaccines for human disease prevention with special emphasis on needs of poor countries and disease prevention in animal agriculture.
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Charles Arntzen currently serves on the Board of Directors of Advanced BioNutrition Corporation.
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Charles Arntzen is an inventor on multiple US and international patents and was named a Fellow in the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015.
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