Autodesk Distinguished Researcher Andrew Hessel is a futurist and catalyst in biological technologies aiming to reduce the gap between science fiction and science. In addition to his work with Autodesk’s Bio/Nano Programmable Matter group, he is a fellow at the University of Ottawa, Institute for Science, Society, and Policy, and the co-founder of the world’s first cooperative biotechnology company, the Pink Army Cooperative, which is pursuing open source virus-based cancer therapies.
Dosier, Hessel, Nagy & Tarantino: Bio At the Scale of Architecture
Hessel: Okay, good morning everyone. So, if you’re not familiar with Autodesk, and I’ve learned this from working there, it’s kind of a—it’s a massive company. It’s about $14 billion market cap, about 8,000 employees. It makes design software, and almost no one knows that it exists. It doesn’t get the name recognition of a […]
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Programmable Life
Synthetic biology opens new doors on what life can be, and do. How will we utilize the awesome new tools at our disposal? In this video, Andrew Hessel of Autodesk moderates a discussion with Ellen Jorgensen of Genspace and Ryan Phelan of Revive & Restore.
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Cancer Drugs: Better, Faster, Cheaper
To beat cancer we need more targeted drugs, made faster, made cheaper. And that means we need to fix the way cancer drugs are made. Andrew Hessel of Autodesk gives a presentation on how we can fix drug development.
Life 2.0: Stewart Brand et al
Bio-engineering is on the cusp of creating inventions that will radically change our perceptions. What will life be like when we can create it ourselves? Stewart Brand of the New Long Foundation, Eri Gentry of the Institute for the Future, and Andrew Hessel of Autodesk discuss. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
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