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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 nine Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]
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.[4] He is one of the world's most highly cited researchers and his h-index is now (according to Google Scholar, 2023-09-16) 320 with currently over 413,000 citations.[5] He is a widely recognized and cited researcher in biotechnology, especially in the fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering.[4][6][7]
He is the most cited engineer in history[8] and 4th most cited individual in any field,[9] 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.[10] He has been awarded numerous leading prizes in recognition of his work.
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A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Langer has helped start 25 companies and has 811 patents, issued or pending, to his name. ...
- ^ a b Robert S. Langer publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "Robert Langer". scholar.google.com. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
- ^ "1040 Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles". Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ^ Shukman, David (February 3, 2015). "Drug-delivery pioneer wins £1m engineering prize". BBC News Science & Environment. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ Gura, T. (2014). "The art of entrepreneurship". Science. 346 (6213): 1146. Bibcode:2014Sci...346.1146G. doi:10.1126/science.346.6213.1146. PMID 25430772.
- ^ "Highly Cited Researchers – 2024". World Scientist and University Rankings – AD Scientific Index 2024.
- ^ O'Neill, Kathryn M. (July 20, 2006). "Colleagues honor Langer for 30 years of innovation". MIT News. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
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