Drew Endy

Drew Endy is the Martin Family University Faculty Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He teaches Introduction to Bioengineering at Stanford. His lab undertakes foundational research in synthetic biology. His goals are civilization-scale flourishing and a renewal of liberal democracy. Prof. Endy helped launch new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford and also the iGEM — a global genetic-engineering “Olympics” enabling thousands of students annually. His past students lead various companies. He is married to Dr. Christina Smolke, CEO of Antheia. Endy has served on the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), the Committee on Science Technology & Law (CSTL), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Synthetic Biology Task Force, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board (briefly), the Defense Science Board's Task Force on Emerging Biotechnology & National Security, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science Advisory Committee. Esquire magazine recognized Drew as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century.