His ground-breaking drug delivery method was initially scoffed at by the scientific community, but his relentless experimentation eventually laid the bedrock for cancer treatment and led to the founding of Covid-19 vaccine giant Moderna. Professor Robert Langer recounted...
He tasked Prof Langer to find a method to deliver angiogenesis-inhibiting drugs to the tumour.
He innovated a way to encase drug molecules within an ultra-small particle, which could attach to the tumour and release the drug over time via diffusion. He published his findings in 1976 in Nature, a prestigious scientific journal.“When I first presented this work, it was ridiculed. I was 27 years old, the youngest person in that room.
Undeterred, Prof Langer sought a faculty position in a university to obtain more funding to continue his research, but no one would take him. “One evening, I went to a faculty dinner at a Chinese restaurant with some senior MIT professors. A senior scientist sat quizzing us while smoking a cigar. When he heard my concept for drug delivery, he blew a cloud of smoke in my face and said, ‘You better start looking for another job’,” said Prof Langer.
Prof Langer compiled citations from eminent scientists who commended his work over the years, and finally secured a patent in 1983. This would mark the start of an illustrious series of successes.
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