Drew is from New Zealand and developed the use of GFP as a folding indicator for membrane protein expression and topology during his PhD at Stockholm University. After a EMBO post-doc fellowship at Imperial College London, he started his own research group as a University Royal Society (URF) Fellow at Imperial, focusing on structural studies of glucose (GLUT) transporters and Na+/H+ exchangers. In 2013, Drew returned to Stockholm University where he currently resides as a Wallenberg Scholar. Drew is internationally recognized by his pioneering structural studies of glucose transporters and Na+/H+ exchangers, membrane protein GFP-based methods, and influential reviews on small molecule transport. Drew has been acknowledged with several prizes, including the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry, the Arrhenius medal, and ERC funding, and is an elected member of EMBO and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
