2026
– Scientific American asks Bob Langer how celebrating science can boost discovery (6/26)
– Bob Langer wins Welch Award in Chemistry (5/26)
2025
– Langer Lab helps invent new human brain model to enable disease research (11/25)
– Langer Lab’s new patch could help to heal the heart (11/25)
– Bob Langer and colleagues develop a more precise way to edit the genome (9/25)
– Bob Langer and colleagues create new microparticles to fight malnutrition (8/25)
– Bob Langer earns 2025 Lipid Science Prize (1/25)
2024
– Langer Lab designs new biodegradable material to replace certain microplastics (12/24)
– Bob Langer & colleagues develop implantable microparticles to deliver cancer therapies (10/24)
– Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award (10/24)
– Robert Langer named Kavli Prize Laureate (6/24)
2023
– Robert Langer wins the 2023 Dr. Paul Janssen Award (12/2023)
2022
– Robert Langer wins the 2022 Balzan Prize (9/14/22)
– Bob Langer Wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine! (1/26/22)
2021
2020
– Bob Langer receives the 2020 Maurice Marie-Janot Award
2019
– Robert Langer wins the 2019 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
– AIChE announces Langer Prize for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
2017
– Bob Langer named #1 Master of the Bench, Medicine Maker “Power List”
2016
– Bob Langer received an Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
– Bob Langer named World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list, 2016 Thomson Reuters
2015
– Bob Langer helps to create an ingestible sensor that measures heart and breathing rates – November 18, 2015
– Bob Langer received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – October 26, 2015
– Langer and colleagues develop a pH-responsive polymer gel that could create swallowable devices – July 27, 2015
– Bob Langer’s Microchips Biotech signs deal to commercialize implantable drug-delivery devices – June 29, 2015
– Bob Langer – 2015 Medicine Maker Power List – May 12, 2015
– Langer lab has designed implantable device to allow cancer drug testing in patients – April 22
– Langer lab develops a self-healing nanogel to aid drug delivery – February 19
– Profs. Anderson and Langer work to help control diabetes – February 9
– Bob Langer’s Controlled Drug Release Technology featured in IBiology video series. February 2015, [Watch Video – III parts]
– Bob Langer wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – February 3, 2015
2014
Bob Langer named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 – December 16
Bob Langer profiled on Chemical Heritage Foundation’s “Scientists You Must Know” video – September 2
Bob Langer receives Kyoto Prize – June 20
2013
Bob Langer receives the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences – December 13
Bob Langer unlocks a new means of growing intestinal stem cells – December 1
The Langer lab designs drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken orally – November 27
Professors Anderson and Langer develop an injectable nanogel to help fight diabetes – May 16
Profs Anderson, Hammond and Langer practice medicine at the nanoscale – March 11
Professors Jensen and Langer find a way to deliver RNA, proteins and nanoparticles by “squeezing” cells – January 23
Bob Langer wins Israel’s Wolf Prize in Chemistry – January 2, 2013
2012
Bob Langer to receive the 2013 National Medal of Technology and Innovation – December 21, 2012
NYTimes profiles the Langer lab – November 24, 2012
Bob Langer wins the Wilhelm Exner Medal, considered the “Austrian Nobel Prize.” – November 8, 2012
Using ultrasound waves, Professors Blankschtein and Langer have found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs, making transdermal drug delivery more efficient – September 14, 2012
Bob Langer’s new tissue scaffold could be used for drug development and implantable therapeutic devices – August 27, 2012
Bob Langer designs nanoparticles that deliver high doses of antibiotics directly to bacteria – May 4, 2012
Bob Langer wins 2012 Perkin Award, the highest honor for the US industrial chemical industry – April 25, 2012
Bob Langer and Dan Anderson have developed nanoparticles that could manufacture cancer drugs at tumor sites – April 9, 2012
Bob Langer’s targeted nanoparticles show success in clinical cancer trials – April 4, 2012
2011
The Tech interviews Institute Professor Robert Langer – December 13, 2011
Bob Langer wins Priestley Medal, chemistry’s top award – June 21, 2011
Bob Langer’s work highlighted on NOVA’s Feb. 9 “Making Stuff: Smarter” (minute 40:35) – February 9, 2011