2024
– Robert Langer named Kavli Prize Laureate
– Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award
2023
– Robert Langer wins the 2023 Dr. Paul Janssen Award (12/2023)
2022
– Robert Langer wins the 2022 Balzan Prize (9/14/22)
– Bob Langer Wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine! (1/26/22)
2021
2020
– Bob Langer receives the 2020 Maurice Marie-Janot Award
2019
– Robert Langer wins the 2019 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
– AIChE announces Langer Prize for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
2017
– Bob Langer named #1 Master of the Bench, Medicine Maker “Power List”
2016
– Bob Langer received an Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
– Bob Langer named World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list, 2016 Thomson Reuters
2015
– Bob Langer helps to create an ingestible sensor that measures heart and breathing rates – November 18, 2015
– Bob Langer received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – October 26, 2015
– Langer and colleagues develop a pH-responsive polymer gel that could create swallowable devices – July 27, 2015
– Bob Langer’s Microchips Biotech signs deal to commercialize implantable drug-delivery devices – June 29, 2015
– Bob Langer – 2015 Medicine Maker Power List – May 12, 2015
– Langer lab has designed implantable device to allow cancer drug testing in patients – April 22
– Langer lab develops a self-healing nanogel to aid drug delivery – February 19
– Profs. Anderson and Langer work to help control diabetes – February 9
– Bob Langer’s Controlled Drug Release Technology featured in IBiology video series. February 2015, [Watch Video – III parts]
– Bob Langer wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – February 3, 2015
2014
Bob Langer named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 – December 16
Bob Langer profiled on Chemical Heritage Foundation’s “Scientists You Must Know” video – September 2
Bob Langer receives Kyoto Prize – June 20
2013
Bob Langer receives the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences – December 13
Bob Langer unlocks a new means of growing intestinal stem cells – December 1
The Langer lab designs drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken orally – November 27
Professors Anderson and Langer develop an injectable nanogel to help fight diabetes – May 16
Profs Anderson, Hammond and Langer practice medicine at the nanoscale – March 11
Professors Jensen and Langer find a way to deliver RNA, proteins and nanoparticles by “squeezing” cells – January 23
Bob Langer wins Israel’s Wolf Prize in Chemistry – January 2, 2013
2012
Bob Langer to receive the 2013 National Medal of Technology and Innovation – December 21, 2012
NYTimes profiles the Langer lab – November 24, 2012
Bob Langer wins the Wilhelm Exner Medal, considered the “Austrian Nobel Prize.” – November 8, 2012
Using ultrasound waves, Professors Blankschtein and Langer have found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs, making transdermal drug delivery more efficient – September 14, 2012
Bob Langer’s new tissue scaffold could be used for drug development and implantable therapeutic devices – August 27, 2012
Bob Langer designs nanoparticles that deliver high doses of antibiotics directly to bacteria – May 4, 2012
Bob Langer wins 2012 Perkin Award, the highest honor for the US industrial chemical industry – April 25, 2012
Bob Langer and Dan Anderson have developed nanoparticles that could manufacture cancer drugs at tumor sites – April 9, 2012
Bob Langer’s targeted nanoparticles show success in clinical cancer trials – April 4, 2012
The Tech interviews Institute Professor Robert Langer – December 13, 2011
Bob Langer wins Priestley Medal, chemistry’s top award – June 21, 2011
Bob Langer’s work highlighted on NOVA’s Feb. 9 “Making Stuff: Smarter” (minute 40:35) – February 9, 2011
Professor Robert Langer ’74’s controlled drug release technology a “baby boomer invention that changed the world” – December 30, 2010
Professor Bob Langer develops nanoparticle to improve cancer drug delivery. MIT News, October 5, 2010
Professor Bob Langer receives NAE Founders Award. MIT News, october 1, 2010
Professor Bob Langer works to help Julie Andrews sing again, guardian.co.uk, October 22, 2009
Dr. Lisa E. Freed’s research featured on NIH and Stories of Recovery. [Watch the video] October 2009
Nature shares a day in the life of Professor Bob Langer, Nature News, March 4, 2009
Prof. Langer wins the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize, June 11, 2008
Langer won the $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize, Boston Herald, “The Ticker” by staff and wire reports, June 12, 2008
MIT professor Robert Langer wins $1.2M technology prize, Boston Herald, by Associated Press, June 11, 2008
Prof. Langer wins the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for the creation of new materials for the benefit of mankind, June 5, 2008
Prof. Langer wins top German science award, March 18, 2008
Prof. Langer and ChemE students develop a gecko-inspired bandage, Feb. 18, 2008
Professor Langer demonstrates drug delivery by nanoparticle, February 13, 2008
Three from MIT win top U.S. science, technology honors, July 16, 2007 | Photos
Langer throws out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park, July 28, 2006
Langer honored for his 30 years of innovation, July 14-16, 2006 (Event Detail)
Langer inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame, May 6, 2006
Prof. Langer won the ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials C&EN News, Jan. 1, 2007
Cancer Smart Bomb, ScienCentral News, May 11, 2006
Langer has been named Institute Professor, March 2, 2005
A dab relieves pain of the jab, August 18, 2004
Langer award cites cancer work, June 2004
Langer wins two prestigious prizes for biomedical advances, December 3, 2003
Stem cells ‘seeded’ on polymer scaffold, October 22, 2003
MIT, California Schools receive $50M grant for Army research, September 10, 2003
Technology Licensing Office has terrific year, ‘Super Week’, March 19, 2003
Julie Andrews hopes to sing praises of research team, June 18, 2002
‘Biorubber’ opens doors for tissue engineering, June 5, 2002
MIT World videos now streaming from WGBH web site, June 5, 2002
MIT affiliates dominate Technology Review’s TR100 list, June 5, 2002
MIT’s biorubber ushers in new possibilities in tissue engineering, May 31, 2002
Facts on Cambridge, MIT and the biotech industry, May 6, 2002
Smart suture is first application of novel MIT polymer, April 25, 2002
Here & There: A Truly Beautiful Mind, April 10, 2002
Langer team reports source of cells for engineered human blood vessels, April 3, 2002
Team reports source of human cells for engineered blood vessels, March 28, 2002
Langer awarded $500,000 Draper Prize for engineering, February 27, 2002
Charles Stark Draper Prize
MIT Bioengineering Professor Awarded 2002 Draper Prize
The 2002 Draper Prize
Lemelson-MIT Program
Robert S. Langer Wins 1998 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Inventor of the Week, June 2002
Scientific American Frontiers
Body Building Episode Premiered, May 28, 2002
How to Make a Nose Segement
Science Hotline
MIT ChemE News and Events
Smart Fibers May Improve Future For Sutures Langer Awarded 2002 Draper Prize
MIT World
Lecture: Biomaterials and How They Will Change our Lives, March 28, 2002
Boston Globe Magazine
For top scientists, prizes a growing source of income, June 22, 2004
Prizes Honor Local Scientists,December 2, 2003
Stem ” cells” grown into tissues, October 28, 2003
Terrified of needles? Help is on the horizon, August 19, 2004
Speak Up, Stem Cell advocates, July 19, 2004
Changing the World, June 29, 2003
The Crusader: MIT scientist Robert Langer doesn’t believe in science for science’s sake. He sees it as a means to change the world – and he has, May 25, 2003
Boston Herald
FDA OK’s needle-free injection device , August 19, 2004
CNN/Time Magazine
America’s Best: Science and Medicine, 2001
Forbes Magazine
Plastic Man : 85 Years of Ideas, December 23,2002
Biotechnology All-Stars, May 31, 1999
Red Herring
MIT’s Robert Langer proves nice guys deliver the goods, January 15, 2002
The Tech
MIT Professor Wins ’Engineering Nobel’, February 22, 2002
The Daily Gazette, NY
Speakers cite promise of biotech field, April 4, 2003
New York Times
How Much Of the Body Is Replaceable? November 11, 2003
National Institute of Health
MIT’s Langer Offers Blue Sky view of Biomaterial Potential, July, 22 2003
Newsweek, U.S. Edition
Sci-Fi War Uniforms?, February 24, 2003
MIT News Office Tech Talk
Three MIT scientists among Time’s best, August 29, 2001
Research Firsts and Teaching Firsts at MIT
Beyond Discovery (National Academy of Sciences)
Polymers and People, 1999
Lemelson-MIT Program
Inventor of the Week, April 1998
The Tech
Bob Langer: Quest of Curiosity July 11, 2001
Good Speakers, Good Company At Biotechnology Conference, March 3, 2001
Lemelson Winner Discusses Innovation, Education, April 28, 1998