Bio Policy Lunch
with Drew Endy

Join us for a lunch discussion with Drew Endy, a science fellow and senior fellow (courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. Professor Endy 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. He 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. Endy 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. He 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.

Caltech Y Student Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lunches are open to any member of the Caltech affiliated community; however, if space becomes an issue, priority will be given to students.  Lunch is provided, RSVP is required. This program is being produced in connection with the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) BioPolicy Initiative Launch Keynote featuring Professor Endy later in the afternoon in the Dabney Hall Lounge. Views expressed are solely those of the speaker(s).