{"id":1634,"date":"2026-01-06T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:04:37","slug":"dr-robert-langer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/dr-robert-langer","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Robert Langer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/RobertLanger.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Robert Langer\" \/>Dr. Langer is a chemical engineer who has pioneered the fields of drug delivery and tissue engineering.  His <a href=\"http:\/\/langerlab.mit.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lab at MIT<\/a> receives roughly $10 Million in annual grants and has 100 researchers.  Dr. Langer has helped to launch close to 30 start-ups, and his lab&#8217;s innovations have been licensed or sublicensed by 250 companies.  Dr. Langer is also a father of three children and a magician.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Langer speaks with Jessica Harris about how he has transformed the bio-materials landscape, from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/RobertLanger-FromScratch-020626.mp3\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Langer is a chemical engineer who has pioneered the fields of drug delivery and tissue engineering. His lab at MIT receives roughly $10 Million in annual grants and has 100 researchers. Dr. Langer has helped to launch close to 30 start-ups, and his lab&#8217;s innovations have been licensed or sublicensed by 250 companies. Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}