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ABSTRACT After reading the article on Robert Langer, one can tell that he is an extraordinarily intelligent man, and an unbelievable one. He has written 700 research papers and 13 books, and he’s only 53 years old. He’s also spoken at over 600 lectures and with his busy schedule of running highly successful research labs and writing documents, he still finds time for his family of a wife and three children. Robert Langer is already changing the world, and his dreams aren’t stopping there. His goals of improving human life are growing everyday, and he believes that scientists are just scratching the surface of what is still left of improvement. He hopes that by the end of this century disease against mankind will no longer be a threat and there will be less suffering, and people will live longer lives. MAIN SECTION In 2002 Robert Langer was awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize and the Othmer Gold Medal. Because of his ideas on the drug delivery industry and his creations like three-dimensional polymer scaffolds for growing human skin, cartilage, blood vessels, and nerves, Langer has received the title of “the father of modern biomaterials.” His motto