Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

In September 2008 he moved to Palo Alto to become an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. His wife Christina Smolke moved from the California Institute of Technology to Stanford in January 2009.

Andrew (Drew) David Endy (born 1970) is a synthetic biologist and Assistant Professor of bioengineering at Stanford University California.