Press Release 98-033 Biomaterials Are Transforming Medicine MIT
scientist and engineer describes a new field in an NSF lecture
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contacts. How can doctors deliver drugs in ways less invasive
and more controlled than an injection? Robert S. Langer views
the question as an engineering design problem. Langer,
Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at
MIT, described how researchers are using biomaterials to create
engineering solutions to medical problems in a lecture at the
National Science Foundation's (NSF) headquarters on June 17.
Langer's lecture, "Biomaterials: From Basic Science and
Engineering to Clinical Practice," focused on advances in
biomaterials, a field that Langer pioneered. "Historically,
materials have found their way into medicine by clinicians," he
said. For the first artificial heart, d