[UCI-Calit2] Creating and Implementing Breakthrough Technologies

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Event:                              Creating and Implementing
Breakthrough Technologies

 

Speaker:                          Robert S. Langer, Sc.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

 

Time:                               5-6 p.m.             

 

Date:                               Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012

 

Location:                         Engineering Hall 1200

 

Bio:                                  Robert S. Langer is the David H.
Koch Institute Professor at MIT, the highest honor awarded to a faculty
member. Langer has written more than 1,175 articles. He also has
approximately 800 issued and pending patents worldwide. His patents have
been licensed or sublicensed to more than 250 pharmaceutical, chemical,
biotechnology and medical device companies. Langer has received more
than 210 major awards including the 2006 United States National Medal of
Science; the Charles Stark Draper Prize, considered the equivalent of
the Nobel Prize for engineers; the 2008 Millennium Prize, the world's
largest technology prize; and the 2012 Priestley Medal, the highest
award of the American Chemical Society. He is the also the only engineer
to receive the Gairdner Foundation International Award; 78 recipients of
this award have subsequently received a Nobel Prize. He is the most
cited engineer in history.

 

Additional Information: This talk is part of the Edwards Lifesciences
Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology's 2nd Annual Open House.
Reception immediately following.

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