"the following is a conversation was Bob Langer professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering he..."

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"Langer you have a bit of a love for magic do you see a connection between magic and science I do I think magic can surprise you and you know and I think science can surprise you and there's something ..."

"the into the science as of today you have over two hundred ninety five thousand citation an h-index of 269 you're one of the most sighted people in history and the most cited engineer in history and y..."

"advice to students to do something big do something that really can change the world rather than something incremental how did you yourself seek out such ideas is there a process is there a sort of a ..."

"drug delivery for example is the notion is the initial notion kind of a very general one that we should be able to do something like this yeah and then you start to ask the questions of well how would..."

"body is there a solid understanding across the populations of humans that are solid reliable knobs that can be controlled I think that's hard to do about on the other hand whenever we make a new drug ..."

"shot what we wanted to see if we could find substances that could stop that from happening so first I mean there are many steps first we had to develop a bio essay to study blood vessel growth again t..."

"words there yeah that's the the first of all polymer molecules big big molecules so the water polymers what's bio sa the the what is the process is trying to isolate this whole thing simplified to whe..."

"happen so that was sort of the what we call the bio sa is the way that we would study that so size of what is a by us which part is the bio sa all of it in other words the bio SAS is the way you study..."

"for all kinds of cancers and actually for many eye diseases to where you have abnormal blood vessel growth macula so in general one of the key ways you can alleviate so what's the hope in terms of tum..."

"small tumor than a big one is that an obvious idea I mean it seems like a very clever strategy in this war against yeah cancer well you know in retrospect it's an obvious idea but when dr. Folkman and..."

"human body is complicated right we'll establish this quantum mechanics and physics is a theory that works incredibly well but we don't really necessarily understand the underlying nature of it so our ..."

"serendipitous discovery and art or is there a systematic science to trying different chemical reactions and how they how they affect whatever you trying to do like shrink blood vessels yeah I don't th..."

"create drugs chemicals that are able to improve some aspects of our bodies Hey or is it quite natural that we were able to discover these kinds of things well at a high level it is amazing I mean evol..."

"I mean there are a lot I mean I'd say one is could you target the right cell like we talked about cancers or some way to deliver a drug just to the cancer cell and no other cell another challenge is t..."

"so that that's an example so from an AI robotics perspective how close are these drug delivery systems to something like a robot or they're totally wrong to think about them as intelligent agents and ..."

"but someday I expect we will be so some of it is just the shrinking of the technology that's a part of it that's one of the things in general what role do you see AI sort of there there's a lot of wor..."

"chain I do I think that AI can be useful and a number of parts of the chain I mean one I think if you get a large amount of information you know say you have some chemical data because you've done hig..."

"we talk about another exciting another exciting space which is tissue engineering what is tissue engineering or regenerative medicine you know so that tissue engineering regenerative medicine have to ..."

"course from stem cells is there are other methods what are the different possible flavors here yeah well I think I mean there's multiple components one is having generally some type of scaffold that's..."

"body so is there a nervousness it's not a bad word says there possibility to weave into the scanner as a computational component so if we talk about electron ships some some ability to sense control s..."

"groups have made them different companies and different professors but they've been approved for burn victims and for patients with diabetic skin ulcers that's amazing okay so skin what else well at d..."

"maybe in particular you might mean rejection by the body so there are multiple ways that people are trying to deal with that one way is which was what we've done and with Dan Anderson one of my former..."

"possibilities of tissue engineering is do you see some tissues more difficult than others what are the possibilities here yeah Wow of course I'm an optimist and I also feel a timeframe if we're talkin..."

"scientific idea in biology nearing that you've come across in your years of research I apologize for the romantic no that's an interesting question I certainly think what is happening right now with C..."

"of ability to copy and paste I mean everything like we said the human body is complicated is that Mele difficult to do I think it is exceptionally difficult to do but that doesn't mean they won't be d..."

"too so in terms of stepwise that's the interesting notion do you see that if you look at medicine or bioengineering do you see that there is these big leaps that happen every decade or so or some dist..."

"they have to be really carefully controlled studies and you know you'd have to manufacture the drug you'd have to you know really watch those patients you have to be very concerned if you know that th..."

"you've been part of launching 40 companies together worth again numbers could be outdated but an estimated twenty three billion dollars you've described your thoughts on a formula for startup success ..."

"people's lives maybe you could mention the business component it's funny to hear great side to say that there's value to business folks oh yeah well that always said so what what value what business i..."

"whether you do what you do for a second third or fourth so you lead one of the largest academic labs in the world with over ten million dollars in annual grants and over 100 researchers probably over ..."

"but through brainstorming and so on what's your role and how difficult it is as a group in this in this collaboration to arrive at these big questions that might have impact well the big questions com..."

"and so forth but but yeah I think I try to do that as the one who leads the lab so you have this exceptionally successful lab and and one of the great institutions in the world MIT what and yet sort o..."

"you know it would be great if we as a society had come up with better ways to teach you know so that people all over could learn better you know so I think there were a number of things that would be ..."

"solving it sure well I think what I do for the first thing is different philanthropists have different visions and I think the first thing is to form a concrete vision of what you want some people I m..."

"go seek out people or they can put a request for proposals and see who does the best you know I'd say both David Koch and Bill Gates did exactly that they sought out people most of them you know or wh..."

"of the vision of the leadership who who do things like that do you think one day you mentioned David Koch and cancer do you think one day will cure cancer yeah I do I mean I coached one day I don't kn..."

"needs to be done well that's a beautiful vision for engineering so on a lighter topic I've read that you love chocolate and mention two places venom Bill's chocolate thorium and the chocolate cookies ..."

"than engineering I think there's some of both I think I think engineer will probably help someday and what about chocolate same thing same thing you have to go to see some of David Edwards stuff you k..."

"do so much good and be happy well I think that's the perfect way to end it Bob thank you so much for talking it was an honor good good questions thank you thanks for listening to this conversation wit..."