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Dr. Langer is one of 14 Institute Professors (the highest honor awarded to a faculty member) and the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Langer has written over 840 articles and has over 500 issued or pending patents worldwide based on his research. 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 Engineering and to the National Academy of Sciences. He is one of very few people ever elected to all three U.S. National Academies. He served as a member of the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Science Board, the FDA’s highest advisory board, from 1995 - 2002 and as its Chairman from 1999 -2002. Dr. Langer has received honorary doctorates from 9 prestigious academic institutions and over 130 major awards, including 2002 Charles Stark Draper Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of engineering. | 