Awards & Winners

Robert S. Langer

Date of Birth 29-August-1948
Place of Birth Albany
(Albany County, United States of America, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Langer, Robert Samuel Langer, Jr.
Profession Scientist, Engineer, Chemical engineer, Professor
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. According to Web of Science he has been cited nearly 100,000 times and has an h-index of 155 as of Jan 23, 2014. Langer's research laboratory at MIT is the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world, maintaining about $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.

Awards by Robert S. Langer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert S. Langer.

2013


Wolf Prize in Chemistry
(For conceiving and implementing advances in polymer chemistry that provide both controlled drug-release systems and new biomaterials.)

2011


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For inventions and discoveries that led to the development of controlled drug release systems, engineered tissues, angiogenesis inhibitors, and new biomaterials.)

2006


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For his revolutionary discoveries in the areas of polymeric controlled release systems and tissue engineering and synthesis of new materials that have led to new medical treatments that have profoundly affected the well being of mankind.)
National Medal of Science for Engineering
(For his revolutionary discoveries in the areas of polymeric controlled release systems and tissue engineering and synthesis of new materials that have led to new medical treatments that have profoundly affected the well being of mankind.)

1996


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For discoveries that led to the development of controlled drug release systems.)