Robert S. Langer
Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American biotechnologist, businessman, chemical engineer, chemist, and inventor. He is one of the nine Institute Professors 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 Program in Health Sciences and Technology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
Langer holds over 1,400 granted or pending patents. He is one of the world's most highly cited researchers and his h-index is now (according to Google Scholar, 2023-09-16) 323 with currently over 427,000 citations. He is a widely recognized and cited researcher in biotechnology, especially in the fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering.
He is the most cited engineer in history and one of the 10 most cited individuals in any field, having authored over 1,500 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 largest biomedical engineering lab in the world; maintaining over $10 million in annual grants and over 100 researchers. He has been awarded numerous leading prizes in recognition of his work. Provided by Wikipedia
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Donation after cardiac death - From then to now by Robert M. Langer
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Progesterone from ovulatory menstrual cycles is an important cause of breast cancer by Herjan J. T. Coelingh Bennink, Iman J. Schultz, Marcus Schmidt, V. Craig Jordan, Paula Briggs, Jan F. M. Egberts, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Ludwig Kiesel, Kirsten Kluivers, Jan Krijgh, Tommaso Simoncini, Frank Z. Stanczyk, Robert D. Langer
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Synergistic interactions with PI3K inhibition that induce apoptosis by Yaara Zwang, Oliver Jonas, Casandra Chen, Mikael L Rinne, John G Doench, Federica Piccioni, Li Tan, Hai-Tsang Huang, Jinhua Wang, Young Jin Ham, Joyce O'Connell, Patrick Bhola, Mihir Doshi, Matthew Whitman, Michael Cima, Anthony Letai, David E Root, Robert S Langer, Nathanael Gray, William C Hahn
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The venture capital in the biotechnology industry by Grislain, Jacques-Henry
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Antibody-modified conduits for extracorporeal selective cytokine filtration in sepsis by Moroi, Morgan K
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Theranostic nanoparticles for the management of inflammatory diseases and conditions by Lee Chung, Bomy
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A microstructural approach for modelling diffusion of bioactive macromolecules in porous polymers by Saltzman, William Mark
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Regulation of drug delivery from porous polymer matrices using oscillating magnetic fields by Edelman, Elazer R
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Controlled release polymers : in vivo studies with insulin and other macromolecules by Brown, Larry Richard
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Design and fabrication of a microfluidies gradient generator system for high-throughput molecular interaction studies by Chen, Guan-Jong, 1981-
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Characterization of the vocal fold lamina propria towards voice restoration by Hahn, Mariah S
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Noninvasive quantification of drug delivery from an implantable MEMS device by Johnson, Audrey M., 1976-
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Temporal evolution of intracellular signaling and gene expression following patterns of membrane depolarization in the pheochromocytoma cell line, PC 12 by Nashat, Amir Hossein, 1973-
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Investigation of barriers to non-viral gene delivery and design of novel polymer-based gene delivery systems by Akinc, Akin, 1976-
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Design of reversible "smart" surfaces for biomedical and nanotechnological applications by Tran, Thanh-Nga T. (Thanh-Nga Trinh)
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Nanoscale and microscale approaches for engineering the in vitro cellular microenvironment by Khademhosseini, Ali
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Poly ([beta]-amino ester)s as pH sensitive biomaterials for microparticulate genetic vaccine delivery by Little, Steven (Steven Ronald)
Published 2008Other Authors: “…Robert S. Langer.…”
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A potential route to hydrogel multifunctionalization utilizing encapsulation of acrylate-conjugated streptavidin by Hempel, Elizabeth (Elizabeth L.)
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The design, synthesis, characterization, and mechanical testing of a novel degradable polymeric biomaterial for use as a bone substitute by Yaszemski, Michael Jerome
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Adsorption, encapsulated solute leakage and microflow of giant vesicles during anhydrobiotic preservation in trehalose solutions by Adams, Dana R. (Dana Renée)
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