Robert S. Langer
Professor, Organization leader
1948 –
Who is Robert S. Langer?
Robert Samuel Langer, Jr. is an American engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. He is also a faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is a widely recognized and cited researcher in biotechnology, especially in the fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He has been cited over 151,000 times and has an h-index of 200 as of September 15, 2014. Langer's research laboratory at MIT is the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world, maintaining over $10 million in annual grants and over 100 researchers. Langer is also currently on the board of directors at Bind Therapeutics and Advanced Cell Technology.
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- Born
- Aug 29, 1948
Albany - Also known as
- Robert Langer
- Robert Samuel Langer, Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Engineering
( - 1974) - Bachelor of Science, Cornell University
Chemical Engineering
( - 1970)
- Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Advanced Cell Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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