American scientist and academic
Robert Samuel Langer, Jr.
Langer in 2023
Born (1948-08-29 ) August 29, 1948 (age 77) Other names Bob Langer[ 2] Alma mater Cornell University (BSc )Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ScD )Known for Controlled drug delivery andtissue engineering Awards Gairdner Foundation International Award (1996) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2002) John Fritz Medal (2003) Harvey Prize (2003) Heinz Award (2004) Albany Medical Center Prize (2005) National Medal of Science (2006) Millennium Technology Prize (2008) Prince of Asturias Award (2008) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2011) Perkin Medal (2012) Wilhelm Exner Medal (2012) Priestley Medal (2012) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2013) IRI Medal (2013) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2014) Kyoto Prize (2014) Biotechnology Heritage Award (2014) FREng [ 1] (2010) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2015) Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine (2017) Medal of Science (Portugal) (2020) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2021) Balzan Prize (2022) Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (2023) Kavli Prize (2024) Double Helix Medal (2025) Lipid Science Prize (2025) Scientific career Fields Chemical Engineering Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals Business Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctoral advisor Clark K. Colton Other academic advisors Judah Folkman Doctoral students W. Mark Saltzman ,Erin Lavik ,Steven R. Little ,Elazer R. Edelman ,David J. Mooney ,Samir Mitragotri ,Mark Prausnitz ,Ali Khademhosseini Other notable students Kristi Anseth ,David Edwards (engineer) ,Jennifer Elisseeff ,Omid Cameron Farokhzad ,Linda Griffith ,Guadalupe Hayes-Mota ,Jeffrey Karp ,Cato Laurencin ,Christine E. Schmidt ,Robert J. Linhardt ,Antonios Mikos ,Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic ,David Berry ,Isaac Berzin ,Kathryn Uhrich ,Joseph Kost ,Akhilesh K. Gaharwar ,Molly Stevens ,Princess Imoukhuede ,Guillermo Ameer ,Canan Dağdeviren ,Laura Niklason ,María José Alonso ,Kaitlyn Sadtler ,Shiva Ayyadurai ,Mariah Hahn ,Rong Tong
Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng [ 1] (born August 29, 1948) is an American biotechnologist, businessman,chemical engineer , chemist, and inventor. He is one of the nineInstitute Professors at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology .[ 3]
He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical andBiomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the Department ofChemical Engineering and the Department ofBiological Engineering at MIT. He is also a faculty member of theHarvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and theKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research .
Langer holds over 1,400 granted or pending patents.[ 4] He is one of the world's most highly cited researchers and hish-index is now (according toGoogle Scholar , 2025-06-17) 331 with currently over 450,000 citations.[ 5] He is a widely recognized and cited researcher inbiotechnology , especially in the fields ofdrug delivery systems andtissue engineering .[ 4] [ 6] [ 7]
He is the most cited engineer in history[ 8] and one of the 10 most cited individuals in any field,[ 9] having authored over 1,600 scientific papers. Langer is also a prolific businessman, having been behind the participation in the founding of over 40 biotechnology companies including the well-known American pharmaceutical company,Moderna .
Langer's research laboratory at MIT is the largestbiomedical engineering lab in the world; maintaining over $10 million in annual grants and over 100 researchers.[ 10] [ 11] He has been awarded numerous leading prizes in recognition of his work.
Background and personal life [ edit ] Langer was born August 29, 1948, inAlbany, New York .[ 12]
He is an alumnus ofThe Milne School and received hisbachelor's degree fromCornell University in chemical engineering.[ 12] He earned hisSc.D. in chemical engineering fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.[ 13] His dissertation was entitled "Enzymatic regeneration of ATP" and completed under the direction of Clark K. Colton.[ 14] From 1974–1977 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at theChildren's Hospital Boston and atHarvard Medical School underJudah Folkman .[ 15] [ 13]
Contributions to medicine and biotechnology [ edit ] Langer is widely regarded for his contributions to medicine andbiotechnology .[ 16] He is considered a pioneer of many new technologies, including controlled release systems and 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.[ 17] [ 18] [ 19]
Langer worked withJudah Folkman atBoston Children's Hospital to isolate the firstangiogenesis inhibitor, amacromolecule to block the spread of blood vessels in tumors.[ 16] [ 20] Macromolecules tend to be broken down by digestion and blocked by body tissues if they are injected or inhaled, so finding a delivery system for them is difficult. Langer's idea was to encapsulate the angiogenesis inhibitor in a noninflammatory syntheticpolymer system that could be implanted in the tumor and control the release of the inhibitor. He eventually invented polymer systems that would work. This discovery is considered to lay the foundation for much of today's drug delivery technology.[ 16] [ 21]
Langer also worked withHenry Brem of theJohns Hopkins University Medical School on a drug-delivery system for the treatment of brain cancer, to deliver chemotherapy directly to a tumor site. The wafer implants that he and his teams have designed have become increasingly more sophisticated, and can now deliver multiple drugs, and respond to stimuli.[ 22] In 2019, he and his team developed and patented a technique whereby microneedle tattoo patches could be used to label people with invisible ink to store medical information subcutaneously. This was presented as a boon to "developing nations" where lack of infrastructure means an absence of medical records.[ 23] [ 24] The technology uses a "quantum dot dye that is delivered, along with avaccine , by amicroneedle patch ."[ 23]
Langer is regarded as the founder of tissue engineering inregenerative medicine .[ 25] He and the researchers in his lab have made advances in tissue engineering, such as the creation of engineeredblood vessels and vascularized engineeredmuscle tissue .[ 26] [ 27] Bioengineered synthetic polymers provide a scaffolding on which new skin, muscle, bone, and entire organs can be grown. With such a substrate in place, victims of serious accidents or birth defects could more easily grow missing tissue.[ 22] [ 28] Such polymers can be biocompatible and biodegradable.[ 29]
Langer is involved in several projects related todiabetes .[ 30] Alongside Daniel G. Anderson, he has contributed bioengineering work to a project involving teams from MIT, Harvard University and other institutions, to produce an implantable device to treattype 1 diabetes by shieldinginsulin -producingbeta cells from immune system attacks.[ 31] [ 32] He is also part of a team at MIT that have developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses ofinsulin to people with type 1 diabetes.[ 33]
At 43 years old, Langer was the youngest person in history to be elected to all three American science academies: theNational Academy of Sciences , theNational Academy of Engineering and theNational Academy of Medicine . He was also elected as a charter member ofNational Academy of Inventors .[ 34] He was elected as an InternationalFellow [ 1] of theRoyal Academy of Engineering [ 1] in 2010.
Langer has received more than 220 major awards. He is one of three living individuals to have received both the U.S. National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.[ 35]
He has received numerous other awards, including the 10th AnnualHeinz Award in the category of Technology, the Economy and Employment (2003),[ 41] [ 79] In 2013 he was awarded theIRI Medal alongside long-time friendGeorge M. Whitesides for outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation that have contributed broadly to the development of industry and the benefit of society.[ 80] [ 81] He also received theRusnano prize that year.[ 82]
Langer has honorary degrees from 44 universities from around the world including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Oxford Universities.[ 83]
In November 2024, Chiba Institute of Technology awarded an honorary doctorate to Langer.[ 84] [ 85]
Langer has been involved in the founding of many companies,[ 86] more than twenty in partnership with the venture capital firmPolaris Partners .[ 2] Success of these companies and Langer's contribution has been detailed by Harvard Business Review:[ 87]
Acusphere AIR[ 2] (acquired by Alkermes and subsequently acquired by Acorda) Arsenal Medical Arsia (acquired by Eagle Pharmaceuticals) BIND Therapeutics (acquired by Pfizer) Tarveda Therapeutics (formerly Blend Therapeutics) Sontra Medical (acquired by Echo Therapeutics) Enzytech (acquired by Alkermes) Tissium (formerly Gecko Biomedical)[ 88] InVivo Therapeutics Kala Landsdowne Labs Lindus Health[ 89] Living Proof[ 90] (acquired by Unilever) Lyra Therapeutics[ 2] Lyndra Therapeutics Microchips Biotech (acquired by Dare) Moderna Momenta (acquired byJohnson and Johnson ) Olivo Labs (acquired by Shisheido) Pervasis (acquired byShire Pharmaceuticals )[ 91] Pulmatrix PureTech Selecta Biosciences (merged to formCartesian Therapeutics ) Semprus Biosciences (acquired byTeleflex )[ 92] Seventh Sense SQZ Biotech[ 93] Soufflé Therapeutics Inc. Taris (acquired byJohnson and Johnson ) Transform (acquired byJohnson and Johnson )[ 94] T2Biosystems Frequency Therapeutics (merged to formKorro Bio ) Sigilon Therapeutics (acquired byEli Lilly ) Seer Bio Langer is a member of the Advisory Board ofPatient Innovation , a nonprofit, international, multilingual, free venue for patients and caregivers of any disease to share their innovations.[ 95] He is also a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company,Xconomy .[ 96]
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(2005)."Engineering vascularized skeletal muscle tissue" (PDF) .Nature Biotechnology .23 (7):879– 84.doi :10.1038/nbt1109 .PMID 15965465 .S2CID 28136064 . ^ Vacanti, Joseph P; Langer, Robert (July 1999)."Tissue engineering: the design and fabrication of living replacement devices for surgical reconstruction and transplantation" .The Lancet .354 :S32 – S34 .doi :10.1016/s0140-6736(99)90247-7 .PMID 10437854 .S2CID 33614316 . RetrievedFebruary 6, 2014 . ^ Freed, Lisa E.; Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana; Biron, Robert J.; Eagles, Dana B.; Lesnoy, Daniel C.; Barlow, Sandra K.; Langer, Robert (July 1994). "Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering".Bio/Technology .12 (7):689– 693.doi :10.1038/nbt0794-689 .PMID 7764913 .S2CID 22968473 . ^ Schaffer, Amanda."Engineering Drug Delivery and Tissue Growth" .MIT Technology Review . RetrievedMarch 21, 2019 . ^ "Potential diabetes treatment advances" .Harvard Gazette . January 25, 2016. 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