About Me

Drew Endy is faculty co-director of degree programs for the Stanford d.school (w/ Kate Maher & David Kelley). Drew is a bioengineer who studies and teaches 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.” Drew 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 (IUCN) SSC Synthetic Biology Task Force and, briefly, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board (DIB). He currently serves on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research and the Defense Science Board (DSB) biotechnology task force. Esquire magazine recognized Drew as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century.