The person that inspired me the most was Judah Folkman. He was the man that I worked with when I was a postdoctoral fellow. He was really an inspirational person for a variety of reasons. One, he was a big thinker, and lots of people told him that his ideas wouldn’t work or that they were impossible. He persevered in spite of that, and did very, very well. And secondly, he was very encouraging, very sort of like positive reinforcement, in terms of how he would deal with me and others. So I would say he certainly had a pivotal influence on my career when I was a postdoctoral fellow.
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Robert S. Langer
Biomedical engineer; Institute Professor at MIT
United States · b. 1948
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Robert Langer is an American chemical engineer and biotechnologist whose laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pioneered controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering. He is one of MIT's Institute Professors and among the most cited engineers in history.
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