Bob Langer
person on 2 shows · 5 statements across 2 episodes
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5 statements about Bob Langer, every show
Wolfe: MIT's Bob Langer created billions in value through spinout companies
“So for example, Bob Langer at MIT is a prodigious output of PhDs who are very commercially minded. This is a guy who has made hundreds of millions of dollars, created billions of dollars of market value in companies, and attracts postdocs that want to be like …”
Langer: Artificial hearts still use ladies' girdle material after 50 years
“If you wanted to make an artificial heart, what the clinicians did in 1967 is they said, well, what object in your house has a good flex life like a heart? And they came up with the idea of a lady's girdle. So they looked at what that was made out of, and It's…”
Langer: Breast implants rely on mattress stuffing and silicone lubricant
“That's still one of the two main breast implant materials. One is a mattress stuffing, and the other is actually a lubricant, which is silicone.”
Langer: Seven of Top 10 Best-Selling Drugs Are Protein Biologics
“If you look at the top 10 selling best drugs in, you know, this past year, seven of them were protein, are protein drugs. If you looked at it even 15 years ago, at best it would have been one, but now that's really the majority. And the sales are over two hund…”
Langer: High-throughput screening solved Abbott's Norvir crystal crisis in two weeks
“Now, seven years later, what we did is, just in two weeks, using this high-throughput approach, not only created crystal form two, which is where they were when they stopped, but we also created crystal form one and discovered three new crystal forms that had …”