Professor Robert Langer, winner of the 2014 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Professor Robert Langer, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has won the Royal Academy for Engineering’s Queen Elizabeth Prize (QEPrize).
The ground-breaking chemical engineer has been awarded the QEPrize for his revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering with chemistry and medicine. Prof Langer was the first person to engineer polymers to control the delivery of large molecular weight drugs for the treatment of diseases such as cancer and mental illness. It is estimated that over 2 billion lives have been improved worldwide by the technologies that Dr Langer’s lab has created.
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