Robert Langer

Robert S. Langer, Jr. ScD ’74
Institute Professor
Professor of Mechanical, Chemical, and Biomedical Engineering and of Health Sciences and Technology

Robert Langer is one of MIT's 13 Institute Professors and the award-winning head of the Langer Laboratory, which works at the interface of biotechnology and materials science. He is a prolific inventor with approximately 750 issued and pending patents worldwide. His breakthrough discoveries have been critical and controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering in the battle against cancer. Some of his findings are also being used to make frizzy hair straight and to try to help Julie Andrews sing again through the use of synthetic vocal chords.