Drew has served on the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the Committee on Science, Technology, & Law; he currently serves on the World Health Organization’s Smallpox Advisory Committee. Esquire magazine recognized Drew as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century.

Topics discussed in todays episode:

-Does the most transformative SynBio research lie outside academia?

-The cultural, political and economic systems that will enable SynBio development in the years ahead.

-What is the key vulnerability of a for-profit organisation?

-How can we engineer biology with evolution?