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Dr. Langer has been a member of the BLSI Board since June 2000. Dr. Langer is one of 14 Institute Professors (the highest rank awarded to a faculty member) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received a Bachelor's Degree from Cornell University in 1970 and a Sc.D. from MIT in 1974, both in chemical engineering. Dr. Langer has received honorary doctorates from the ETH (Switzerland) and the Technion (Israel). Dr. Langer has written more than 800 articles, 400 abstracts, 500 patents (one of which was cited as the outstanding patent in Massachusetts in 1988 and one of 20 outstanding patents in the U.S.), has given more than 600 invited lectures (50 named lectureships), and has edited 13 books. Dr. Langer has received over 130 major awards, including the Gairdner Foundation International Award (the only engineer to earn this award from which 56 recipients have subsequently received a Nobel Prize), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world's largest prize for invention), and the Charles Stark Draper Prize (the world's highest engineering prize from the National Academy of Engineering). In 1989, Dr. Langer was elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1992 he was elected to both the National Academy of Engineering and to the National Academy of Sciences. | 