A bright future in medicine for chemical engineering

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AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Robert Langer * Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Robert Langer * McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Nicholas A. Peppas *

Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Nicholas A. Peppas * Institute of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine, The

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Nicholas A. Peppas * Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Nicholas A. Peppas * Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Nicholas A. Peppas * Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug

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