“Our Goal is to do something
really transformative
for Parkinson’s”
–  Dr. Robert Langer from MIT:
“the Edison of Medicine”

Prof. Robert Langer: 
Robert S. Langer is one of 10 Institute Professors at MIT; being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He is the most cited engineer in history (h-index 261 with over 272,000 citations according to Google Scholar).
Dr. Langer has received over 220 major awards. He is one of 4 living individuals to have received both the United States National Medal of Science
(2006) and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2011). He also received the 1996 Gairdner Foundation International Award, the 2002 Charles Stark Draper Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for engineers, the 2008 Millennium Prize, the world’s largest technology prize, the 2012 Priestley Medal, the highest award of the American Chemical Society, the 2013 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2014 Kyoto Prize.

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