Drew Endy

Drew Endy is a science fellow and senior fellow (courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He leads Hoover’s Bio-Strategy and Leadership effort, which focuses on keeping increasingly biotic futures secure, flourishing, and democratic. Professor Endy also researches and teaches bioengineering at Stanford University, where he is the Martin Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, senior fellow (courtesy) of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and faculty codirector of degree programs for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Professor Endy helped launch new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford and the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, which involves 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 and has been recognized in Esquire magazine as one of the seventy-five most influential people of the twenty-first century.

Stanford University
Tuesday
May 06
Unbound Biology: The Next Era of (Bio)Computing
8:40 AM

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9:05 AM

The future of computing is being rewritten by biology. In this landmark session, Axios Managing Editor for Science & World, Alison Snyder, sits down with Stanford professor and synthetic biology pioneer Drew Endy and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott to explore how programming living systems will transform the architecture of innovation. From designing cells with logic and memory to harnessing biological systems for sensing, computation, and decision-making, biology is becoming a powerful substrate for information processing. Join us for a forward-looking conversation on the convergence of synthetic biology and computing—and what it means for the future of technology, medicine, and planetary health.

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