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AWARDS
Robert S. Langer, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive the $250,000 10th Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy & Employment.
Langer has conducted important research in tissue engineering at his lab, the largest biomedical engineering laboratory in the world. He has published more than 700 papers and holds nearly 500 patents for his inventions, licensed out to more than 100 firms. Earlier this year, Langer was awarded the $75,000 Harvey Prize from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. For 2003, two prizes were slated--in human health and in science and technology--but because Langer's work encompassed both areas, the prize committee took the unusual step of giving out only one award. Langer received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1970 and an Sc.D. from MIT in 1974, both in chemical engineering. He returned to MIT in 1977. The awards join dozens of others on Langer's shelf, including the $500,000 Charles Stark Draper Award in 2002 and the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention & Innovation in 1998. He was also the youngest person to be inducted into all three U.S. national academies (in 1992) and has been recognized by Forbes, Discover, Time, and CNN as one of the leading scientists in the U.S. Langer's prize is one of six awards to be given this year by the Heinz Family Foundation of Pittsburgh. |
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