Creating and Implementing Medical Technology
by ROBERT LANGER

The Product Design Topical Conference- Sponsored by the Process Development Group features 10 Sessions with over 60 Papers and is highlighted by a Keynote Address on Product Centered Process Design, by ROBERT LANGER, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Dr. Langer has received over 100 major awards and is the only engineer to receive the Gairdner Foundation International Award; 56 recipients of this award have subsequently received a Nobel Prize.  He has received the Lemelson-MIT prize, the world’s largest prize for invention for being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine,” and the Charles Stark Draper Prize, the world’s most prestigious engineering prize, from the National Academy of Engineers.  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.  Both Forbes Magazine and BioWorld have named Langer as one of the 25 most important individuals in biotechnology in the world and Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most important people in America (America’s Best) and the one of the 18 most important individuals in Science and Medicine in the United States.