Courtesy of Langer Research Lab, MIT
Robert Langer is a professor of chemical and biomedical engi neering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written more than 800 articles, has more than 500 issued or pending patents worldwide, and has licensed his patents to 120 companies. In 2002 Langer was awarded the $500,000 Charles Draper prize, considered to be the Nobel Prize of engineering, and in 1999,
Advanced drug delivery systems barely existed 25 years ago, but there has been such rapid research progress that more than 30 million people in the United States now use novel delivery systems each year. In general, advanced systems release a drug at a controlled rate for a prolonged period of time (as long as five years from a single implant), deliver the drug at specific sites in the human ...
