Abstract
Robert S. Langer, Germeshausen Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the 1998 Lemelson-MIT Prize in ceremonies last week in New York City. The $500,000 prize is the largest single cash award for American invention and innovation. A pioneer in biomedical engineering, Langer specializes in controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering. At 49 years of age, he is a member of all three U.S. National Academies: Science, Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. Langer is named as an inventor on 320 patents Langer says it gives him great satisfaction to know that the research his lab has done—which includes drug delivery systems for treating brain cancer—has led to improvements in people's lives. Langer describes his overall approach as: Decide what you want in a biomaterial from an engineering, biological, and chemical standpoint, then synthesize it. One problem Langer tackled involved uneven decomposition of plastic resins that resulted in bu...
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