One of the most prolific medical inventors in history, Robert S. Langer, spoke at Vanderbilt Nov. 11 about a variety of topics including how drug delivery technologies, including novel polymers and intelligent microchips, promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses.
Langer is an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is credited with launching the fields of sustained drug delivery and tissue engineering. His lecture was the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture of 2005.