« Ivy League + Happy Hour | Main | Lab Fab: MIT Technologies for Tomorrow’s Ventures (Philadelphia) »
September 29, 2005
Future Directions in Biomaterials and Biotechnology... How They Will Change Our Lives
WHEN: Thursday, Sep. 29, 2005, 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Embassy Suites Hotel – Philadelphia Airport – 9000 Bartram Ave., Phila. (directions)
RSVP: By Sept. 25 on the Infinite Connection: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=3970&groupID=158
CONTACT: John Wilkens, j.a.wilkens@alum.mit.edu, or 610-444-3242.
COST: Dues-paying Club Members and their guests $30; Non-members $40
MIT Institute Prof. ROBERT LANGER, one of the world's most innovative and prolific researchers, will share his insights on the future of biomaterials and biotechnology.
Advances in drug delivery and tissue engineering are revolutionizing medical therapies. New drug delivery technologies including novel polymers and intelligent microchips promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses. Furthermore, by combining mammalian cells with synthetic polymers, new approaches for engineering tissues are being developed that may someday help repair tissues for patients with burns, damaged cartilage, paralysis and vascular disease.Prof. Langer is one of 14 Institute Professors, the highest honor awarded to an MIT faculty member. Dr. Langer has written over 840 articles and has over 500 issued or pending patents worldwide.
Forbes Magazine and Bio World have named Dr. Langer as one of the 25 most important individuals in biotechnology in the world. He received his B.S. from Cornell in 1970 and his Sc.D from MIT in 1974, both in Chemical Engineering.
Prof. Robert Langer, one of the world's most innovative and prolific researchers, will share his insights on the future of biomaterials and biotechnology at our kickoff meeting. We are extremely pleased to have Bob, and invite you to join us for this exciting event.
Advances in drug delivery and tissue engineering are revolutionizing medical therapies. New drug delivery technologies including novel polymers and intelligent microchips promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses. Furthermore, by combining mammalian cells with synthetic polymers, new approaches for engineering tissues are being developed that may someday help repair tissues for patients with burns, damaged cartilage, paralysis and vascular disease.
Prof. Langer is one of 14 Institute Professors, the highest honor awarded to an MIT faculty member. Dr. Langer has written over 840 articles and has over 500 issued or pending patents worldwide, one of which was cited as the outstanding patent in Massachusetts in 1988 and one of 20 outstanding patents in the United States. He served as a member of the United States Food and Drug Administration's SCIENCE Board, the FDA's highest advisory board, including presiding as its Chairman from 1999-2002.
Dr. Langer has received over 130 major awards. In 2002, he received the Charles Stark Draper Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for engineers and the world's most prestigious engineering prize, from the National Academy of Engineering. He is also the only engineer to receive the Gairdner Foundation International Award; 64 recipients of this award have subsequently received a Nobel Prize. In 1989 Dr. Langer was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1992 he was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and to the National Academy of Engineering. He is one of very few people ever elected to all three United States National Academies and the youngest in history (at age 43) to ever receive this distinction.
Forbes Magazine and Bio World have named Dr. Langer as one of the 25 most important individuals in biotechnology in the world. He received his B.S. from Cornell in 1970 and his Sc.D from MIT in 1974, both in Chemical Engineering.
Don't miss meeting and hearing this truly remarkable person!
Posted by webmaster at September 29, 2005 06:00 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.mitdv.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/20