Our first Meet the Legend series features Dr. Bob Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Trained as a chemical engineer at Cornell University and MIT, he is a globally recognized researcher in biotechnology, and one of the 10 most cited individuals in history. He has over 1,400 scientific papers and holds over 1,350 granted or pending patents. He runs the largest biomedical engineering research laboratory in the world, and his research has benefited millions of lives worldwide.