Biopharma Ovid Therapeutics (NSDQ:OVID) has named MIT professor Robert Langer as the chairman of its scientific advisory board.
The company focuses on rare neurological diseases.
“The neurosciences are on the cusp of a scientific and, hopefully, therapeutic revolution,” said Langer in a statement. “Ovid has an exciting approach to tackling the key questions that drive scientific research and new medicines in the central nervous system.”
Langer has played a leading role in the healthcare sector, becoming one of the first chemical engineers to specialize in drug delivery, tissue engineering and diabetes.
Langer’s academic work had been cited 338,000 times, making him the most frequently cited engineer in history.
He has more than 1,400 granted or pending patents.
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