Drew Endy

Drew Endy
Born1970 (age 55–56)
Alma materDartmouth College
SpouseChristina Smolke[1]
Scientific career
FieldsSynthetic biology
WorkplacesStanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dartmouth College
ThesisDevelopment and application of a genetically-structured simulation for bacteriophage T7 (1997)
John Yin[2]
Websiteopenwetware.org/wiki/Endy_Lab
engineering.stanford.edu/people/drew-endy

Andrew David Endy (born 1970) is a synthetic biologist and associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Education and career

Endy received his bachelors and masters degrees from Lehigh University and his PhD from Dartmouth College in 1997 for his work on genetic engineering.[9]

Endy was a junior fellow for three years and later an Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2002–2008). In 2008, he moved to Stanford University, where he is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering.[10]

Research

With Thomas Knight, Gerald Jay Sussman, Randy Rettberg and others at MIT, Endy worked on synthetic biology and the engineering of standardized biological components, devices, and parts, collectively known as BioBricks.[11] Endy is one of several founders of the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, and invented an abstraction hierarchy for integrated genetic systems.[12]

Endy was one of the early promoters of open source biology[13] and helped start the Biobricks Foundation. He was also a co-founder of the now-defunct Codon Devices, a biotechnology startup company that aimed to commercialize synthetic biology.[14][15]

In 2008, Esquire magazine named Endy one of the most influential people of the twenty-first century.[16][17]

Endy led a team of researchers that in March 2013 created the biological equivalent of a transistor, which they dubbed a "transcriptor". The invention was the final of the three components required to build a functional biocomputer: data storage, information transmission, and a basic system of logic.[18]

Federal service and policy work

Endy co-founded the iGEM competition.[19] In 2013, Endy was recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House.[20]

In February 2025, Endy testified before the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission.[21][22] Endy is a founder and steering group member of the Build-a-Cell Initiative, an international collaboration investigating the creation of synthetic live cells.[23]

Personal life

Endy is married to Christina Smolke.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "365 days: Nature's 10". Nature. 528 (7583): 459–467. 2015. Bibcode:2015Natur.528..459.. doi:10.1038/528459a. PMID 26701036.
  2. ↑ Endy, D.; Kong, D.; Yin, J. (1997). "Intracellular kinetics of a growing virus: A genetically structured simulation for bacteriophage T7". Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 55 (2): 375–389. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19970720)55:2<375::AID-BIT15>3.0.CO;2-G. PMID 18636496.
  3. ↑ Endy, D. (2005). "Foundations for engineering biology". Nature. 438 (7067): 449–453. Bibcode:2005Natur.438..449E. doi:10.1038/nature04342. PMID 16306983. S2CID 1436520.
  4. ↑ Colman-Lerner, A.; Gordon, A.; Serra, E.; Chin, T.; Resnekov, O.; Endy, D.; Gustavo Pesce, C.; Brent, R. (2005). "Regulated cell-to-cell variation in a cell-fate decision system". Nature. 437 (7059): 699–706. Bibcode:2005Natur.437..699C. doi:10.1038/nature03998. PMID 16170311. S2CID 4398874.
  5. ↑ Endy, D.; Yaffe, M. B. (2003). "Signal transduction: Molecular monogamy". Nature. 426 (6967): 614–615. Bibcode:2003Natur.426..614E. doi:10.1038/426614a. PMID 14668845.
  6. ↑ Endy, D.; Brent, R. (2001). "Modelling cellular behaviour". Nature. 409 (6818): 391–395. Bibcode:2001Natur.409..391E. doi:10.1038/35053181. PMID 11201753.
  7. ↑ Canton, B.; Labno, A.; Endy, D. (2008). "Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (7): 787–793. doi:10.1038/nbt1413. PMID 18612302. S2CID 19797363.
  8. ↑ "Drew Endy". Hoover Institution.
  9. ↑ Endy, Andrew David (1997). Development and application of a genetically-structured simulation for bacteriophage T7 (PhD thesis). Dartmouth College. ProQuest 304348966.
  10. ↑ Platoni, Kara (16 December 2011). "Assembly Required". Stanfordmag.org. Stanford Magazine. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  11. ↑ From the cells up, The Guardian, 10 March 2005
  12. ↑ Shetty, R. P.; Endy, D.; Knight, T. F. (2008). "Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts". Journal of Biological Engineering. 2 5. doi:10.1186/1754-1611-2-5. PMC 2373286. PMID 18410688.
  13. ↑ Lohr, Steve (November 23, 2021). "Can Synthetic Biology Save Us? This Scientist Thinks So". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  14. ↑ Check Hayden, Erika; Ledford, Heidi (April 16, 2009). "A synthetic-biology reality check" (PDF). Nature. No. 458. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  15. ↑ "Behind the Tech Podcast with Kevin Scott - Microsoft". microsoft.com.
  16. ↑ "Drew Endy | Esquire | OCTOBER 2008". Esquire | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  17. ↑ "How to Make Life". Esquire. 20 November 2007.
  18. ↑ Robert T. Gonzalez (March 29, 2013). "This new discovery will finally allow us to build biological computers". IO9. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
  19. ↑ Lichtenstein, Jesse (30 November 2007). "Innocence and Syn". Slate.
  20. ↑ "Most of the Smartest Bioengineers Work for Someone Else". whitehouse.gov. 20 June 2013.
  21. ↑ "STRANGE COMPETITION A Statement of Evidence Written in 2025" (PDF). February 6, 2025.
  22. ↑ "Drew Endy: Made In China 2025—Who Is Winning? | Stanford Emerging Technology Review". setr.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  23. ↑ "Build-a-Cell". Retrieved 4 Dec 2020.
  24. ↑ "Stanford Engineering: Drew Endy". Stanford.edu. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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