September 22, 2011
The Economist Innovation Awards Ceremony and Summit (press release)
Winner: Bioscience - Robert Langer
With more than 800 issued and pending patents worldwide, which have been licensed or sublicensed to more than 220 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies, Robert Langer is one of the world’s most prolific biomedical engineers.
Langer is widely credited with founding the fields of controlled-release drug delivery and tissue engineering....
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