The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to Dr. Robert Langer for his work and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and medicine. The Queen Elizabeth Prize is a global £1 million ($1.53 million) prize that celebrates the engineers responsible for ground-breaking innovation that has globally benefited humanity.

Langer works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where his laboratory - with more than 100 students, postdoctoral students and visiting scientists at any one time—is one of the world's largest academic biomedical engineering laboratories.

He has more than 1,000 issued and pending patents, has won more than 200 prizes and ranks among the most cited engineer in history.

One of Langer’s most recent projects is a microchip-based implant capable of storing and releasing precise doses of a drug on-demand or at scheduled intervals for up to 16 years.

The Queen will present the prize to Langer later this year. .

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