Dr. Langer has been a member of Noveome’s Board of Directors for over 10 years. He is one of only 12 Institute Professors (MIT’s highest honor). He has written 1,500 articles and has approximately 1350 issued and pending patents. His patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies. Dr. Langer has received over 220 major awards including the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (he is one of 4 living individuals to have received both these honors), the Charles Stark Draper Prize (often called the Engineering Nobel Prize), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society.) He holds 34 honorary doctorates and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.