Bob Langer
Institute Professor, MIT. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
academicscientistengineerfounderlangerlab.mit.edu ↗Wikipedia ↗
He directs MIT’s Langer Lab and is a foundational pioneer of controlled drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He holds over 1,400 patents and has co-founded more than 40 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, including Moderna.
1shows
1appearances
8statements
5resolved
3supported
0contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything Bob Langer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Langer: Withdrawing Vioxx from the market in 2005 was wrong
“The second one that I think had a negative effect was the Vioxx situation in 2005, and, you know, there was just a small increase in deaths with this drug, but there were so many lawsuits over it, That people at the FDA would get called on the carpet for appro…”
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: Nucleic acid therapeutics will fail without targeted delivery
“And these, I think delivery ends up being so critical because if you can't deliver them, you know, probably those drugs will not work.”
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 …”
Langer: Academic involvement in startups was frowned upon in the 1980s
“If I go back to when I started, you know, doing this in the, you know, early eighties, that I think in academia, it was somewhat frowned upon. Of getting involved with very translational work and applied work in companies. And I don't think that that's, and I …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Bob's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 a16zLEDGER | Institute Professor, MIT | 1 | 8 | 60% 3/5 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |