Leading From The Lab: MIT’s Robert Langer On The Converging Science Of Drugs, Devices And Delivery
"If one has the essential ingredients of a good idea, a patent, data and some talented people, you can often start a company."
Ten years after our first encounter with MIT’s Robert Langer, In Vivo sits down with the polymath professor – arguably the most inventive and prolific life scientist of his generation – to identify key challenges in medicine.

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