Dr. Robert Langer

Biography

Robert Langer is an Institute Professor at MIT, the most prestigious distinction awarded to an elite group of 11 faculty members, and the co-founder of Microchips Biotech. Dr. Langer has an h-index of 202, the highest of any engineer in history, and more than 1,000 issued and pending patents, which have been licensed or sublicensed to over 250 companies. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Langer served as Chairman of the FDA’s prestigious Science Board from 1999-2002, and is one of only three individuals elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Langer is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered the engineering Nobel Prize), the Albany Medical Center Prize, the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, the Millennium Technology Prize, the Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), the Gairdner Prize, the Kyoto Prize and the Lemelson-MIT prize, for being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine.” Dr. Langer holds 22 honorary doctorates, including degrees from Harvard and Yale. 

Research Interest

Engineering