Robert Langer

Dr. Robert Langer is a Co-Founder of Verseau and has served as a board member since March 2017. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has written over 1,200 articles, which have been cited over 90,000 times; his h-index of 148 is the highest of any engineer in history. He has 815 issued and pending patents worldwide. His patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 250 companies. He served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board (its highest advisory board) from 1999-2002.

His over 220 awards include both the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation, as well as the Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered the engineering Nobel Prize), Albany Medical Center Prize, the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, the Millennium Technology Prize, the Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), the Gairdner Prize and the Lemelson-MIT prize, for being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine.”

He holds 20 honorary doctorates, including honorary degrees from Harvard University and Yale University.

Dr. Langer is one of the few individuals ever to have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors.