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Moderna Co-Founder Robert Langer’s Tips For Innovation

Experience Shows Persistence Pays

 
• By Vibha Ravi

Moderna co-founder Robert Langer shared tips to drive innovation at a recent summit, while narrating a fascinating tale of tenacity during the development of angiogenesis inhibitors with Judah Folkman. If an idea is important, it’s sure to be criticized, said the man who has over 1,000 patents issued or pending worldwide.

Concept of innovation - goldfish with shark fin
Innovation Is Essential To Growth And Survival • Source: Alamy

Wikipedia defines scientific temper as "a modest open-minded temper…ever ready to welcome new light, new knowledge, new experiments, even when their results are unfavorable to preconceived opinions and long-cherished theories."

However, the scientific community doesn’t always exhibit this temper, said Moderna, Inc

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