Synthetic Virology:Andrew Hessel at TEDxDanubia 2014

Andrew Hessel is a Distinguished Researcher with Autodesk's Bio/Nano Programmable Matter group, which is developing advanced software tools for designing living and nanoscale systems. Trained in microbiology and genetics, his work explores the real and imagined technological, societal, and economic landscapes created by advances in life science. He was co-chair of the biotechnology and bioinformatics program at Singularity University and has written articles on genetics for The Atlantic, Wired UK, and Huffington Post. His current work is exploring how to rapidly design and build cancer-fighting viruses.

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