Dr. Robert Langer, distinguished leader in the field of biomedical engineering, to lecture at NIH
...ger as one of the 15 innovators worldwide who will reinvent our future. Time Magazine and CNN (2001) named Langer as one of the 100 most important people in America and one of the 18 top people in science or medicine in America. He has served at various times, on 12 boards of directors and 30 Scientific Adv...LSU program for graduate education could become model for U.S.
...m, known as IGERT. The IGERT program, designed to reinvent the way graduate students are trained, allows participating institutions to develop their own methods for graduate education. NSF offers guidelines for the program, including that it should involve new teaching methods, intensive research and proble......dying the resulting phenotype. "It's very easy to reinvent the wheel," he said. "Reverse genetics studies will be of major interest in the area of functional genomics, and many of the planned experiments will be much more fruitful if they're coordinated." According to Chory, studies of Arabidopsis will al...