Biography
Professor Drew Endy researches and teaches bioengineering at Stanford University, where he is the Martin Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He is also a senior fellow (courtesy) of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, faculty co-director of degree programs for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and science fellow and senior fellow (courtesy) at the Hoover Institution where he leads Hoover’s Bio-Strategy and Leadership effort. He serves as chair of Stanford’s Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid.
Professor Endy helped launch new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford and also the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM.org) competition, which engages thousands of students annually. Endy has served on the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Science, Technology, and Law; the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Synthetic Biology Task Force; and, briefly, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. He currently serves on the World Health Organization’s Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research; the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Global Forum on Technology’s synthetic biology task force; and the Defense Science Board’s Emerging Biotechnology and National Security Task Force. Endy earned his PhD from Dartmouth in biotechnology and biochemical engineering; he was recognized in Esquire magazine as one of the seventy-five most influential people of the twenty-first century.
