Biomaterials and Biotechnology

Time: Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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Presenter: Robert Langer; David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT
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Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06511
United States

The 2017 Tetelman Lecture

Robert Langer

"Biomaterials and Biotechnology"

From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering.

Robert Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT (there are 13 Institute Professors at MIT; being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member). He has written more than 1,400 articles and has over 1,260 issued and pending patents worldwide. His many awards include the US National Medal of Science, the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered the engineering Nobel Prize), Albany Medical Center Prize (largest US medical prize), the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, the 2014 Kyoto Prize and the Lemelson-MIT prize, for being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine.” Langer is one of the very few individuals ever elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 4:30 PM
YALE CENTER OF BRITISH ART
1080 CHAPEL STREET, NEW HAVEN

The Tetelman Fellowship at Yale was endowed in 1979 by Mr. Damon Wells of the Class of 1958 in memory of his friend and classmate, Alan S. Tetelman, who died in an air crash over the San Diego airport in 1978. Mr. Tetelman, a metallurgist, was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Materials at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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