Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Robert Langer

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Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsPharmacy,Preparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers,Biomaterials

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityCambridge
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Chemical Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2008

Programme(s)

2008Max Planck Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2017Phillip Nadeau, Dina El-Damak, Dean Glettig, Yong Lin Kong, Stacy Mo, Cody Cleveland, Lucas Booth, Niclas Roxhed, Robert Langer, Anantha P. Chandrakasan & Giovanni Traverso: Prolonged energy harvesting for ingestible devices. In: Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2017,
2016Young Ah-Lee, Shiyi Zhang, Jiaqi Lin, Robert Langer, Giovanni Traverso: A janus mucoadhesive and omniphobic device for gastrointestinal retention. In: Advanced healthcare materials, 2016, 1141-1146
2015Sufeng Zhang, Joerg Ermann, Marc D. Succi, Allen Zhou, Matthew J. Hamilton, Bonnie Cao, Joshua R. Korzenik, Jonathan N. Glickman, Praveen K. Vemula, Laurie H. Glimcher, Giovanni Traverso, Robert Langer, and Jeffrey M. Karp: An inflammation-targeting hydrogel for local delivery in inflammatory bowel disease. In: Science Translational Medicine, 2015, 300
2015Carl M. Schoellhammer, Avi Schroeder, Ruby Maa, Gregory Yves Lauwers, Albert Swiston, Michael Zervas, Ross Barman, Angela M. Diciccio, William R. Brugge, Daniel G. Anderson, Daniel Blankschtein, Robert Langer and Giovanni Traverso: Ultrasound-mediated gastrointestinal drug delivery. In: Science Translational Medicine, 2015, 310
2015Shiyi Zhang, Andrew M. Bellinger, Dean L. Glettig, Ross Barman, Young-Ah Lucy Lee, Jiahua Zhu, Cody Cleveland, Veronica A. Montgomery, Li Gu, Landon D. Nash, Duncan J. Maitland, Robert Langer, and Giovanni Traverso: pH-responsive supramolecular polymer gel as an enteric elastomer for use in gastric devices. In: Nature Materials, 2015, 1065-1071
2013Susanne Kirchhof, Ferdinand P. Brandl, Nadine Hammer, and Achim M. Goepferich: Investigation of the Diels-Alder reaction as a cross-linking mechanism for degradable poly(etheylene glycol) based hydrogels. In: Journals of Materials Chemistry B, 2013, 4855-4864
2012Woo Kyung Cho, James A. Ankrum, Dagang, Guo, Shawn A. Chester, Seung Yun, Yang, Anurag Kashyap, Georgina A. Campbell, Robert J. Wood, Ram K. Rijal, Rohit Karnik, Robert Langer, and Jeffrey M. Karp: Microstructured barbs on the North American porcupine quill enable easy tissue penetration and difficult removal. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 2012, 21289-21294