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Robert S. Langer is an
Institute Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He was formerly
the Germeshausen Professor of
Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering and maintains activity
in the departments of
chemical engineering and
biological engineering at MIT.
He is a distinguished and highly
regarded researcher in
biotechnology, especially in
the fields of
drug delivery and
tissue engineering. Dr.
Langer's
research laboratory at
MIT is the largest
biomedical engineering lab in
the world, maintaining about $6
million in annual grants and over
100 researchers.
Langer's contributions to
medicine and the emerging
fields of biotechnology are highly
recognized and respected around
the world. He is considered a
pioneer of many new technologies,
including transdermal delivery
systems, which allow the
administration of drugs or
extraction of analytes from the
body through the skin without
needles or other invasive methods.
He and the researchers in his lab
have also made significant
advances in tisse engineering,
such as the creation of
vascularized engineered
muscle
tissue and engineered
blood vessels.
Langer holds more than 500
granted or pending patents and has
authored more than 800 scientific
papers. He has received numerous
awards, including the
Charles Stark Draper Prize,
the
Lemelson-MIT Prize and the
Albany Medical Center Prize in
Medicine and Biomedical Research.
He is the youngest person in
history (at 43) to be elected to
all three American science
academies: the
National Academy of Sciences,
the
National Academy of Engineering
and the
Institute of Medicine.
Dr. Langer received his
bachelor's degree from
Cornell University and his
Sc.D. from
MIT in
1974, both in
chemical engineering.
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