Dr. Robert Langer
From Scratch with Jessica Harris
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How Did You Break Through That Conventional Bias?
In 1976 you published a paper in Nature showing that you could deliver molecules of almost any size. People thought trying to get these big molecules through a plastic was kind of like you or I walking through a brick wall. What we were saying was that we'd have these tiny little particles and yet the drugs would come out for over a hundred days. And that just defied what I like to say conventional wisdom.
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Dr. Langer is a chemical engineer who has pioneered the fields of drug delivery and tissue engineering. His 
