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Top Entrepreneurial Life Science Professors @ MIT
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Overview
Behind every transformative technology is a team of brilliant scientists and researchers. Academic research in particular is a driving force for technological innovation. Here, we have identified a ‘Midas List’ of researchers who have pioneered highly transformative technologies that have translated to the clinic. Using venture backed startups as a primary guide along with other impact metrics such as patents, citations, and thought leadership, the following professors have demonstrated patient impact, providing significant contributions to the startup ecosystem.
The soul of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is research. For more than 150 years, the Institute has married teaching with engineering and scientific studies — and produced an unending stream of advancements, many of them world changing. In just the last few decades of biotechnology research, MIT has played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology. With approximately 3,820 researchers (including some 1,530 postdoctoral scholars and 475 visiting faculty and scientists) during the school year, the possibilities are truly boundless. As an example of the amazing work that this university is producing, we would like to highlight leading Life Science entrepreneurship efforts at MIT, both in innovation and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the school.
We asked the ever incredible Bob Langer for comment on how MIT fosters an entrepreneurial environment & what entrepreneurship means to him:
“I feel very fortunate to be @ MIT — where we are able to participate in cutting edge basic research and then have the opportunity to translate our discoveries, with our students, into patents, companies, & products that can hopefully make the world a better place.”
— Bob Langer
Bob Langer
Bob Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor of chemical engineering and is widely regarded for his contributions to medicine and biotechnology. He is considered a pioneer of many new technologies, including controlled release systems and transdermal delivery systems, which allow the administration of drugs or extraction of analytes from the body through the skin without needles or other invasive methods. He is one of 12 Institute Professors at MIT; being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He currently directs the Langer Lab, which has a major emphasis on studying the development of polymers to deliver drugs.
Langer has written more than 1,500 articles and has issued almost 1,400 patents worldwide. Langer’s patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 400 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies. He is the most cited engineer in history (h-index 291 with over 348,700+ citations at the time of writing this citations according to Google Scholar), as well as a prolific entrepreneur, having participated in the founding of over 40 biotechnology companies including: Moderna, SQZ, Frequency, Seer, amongst others.
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