Giovanni Traverso (L), Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Robert Langer, MIT
Novo Nordisk ‘thinking big’ in renewed collaboration with high-profile scientists Traverso, Langer
Three years ago, Novo Nordisk momentarily captured the center stage of the scientific world with the prototype for a whole new kind of delivery vehicle for insulin. Working with two world renowned scientists — Giovanni Traverso at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT’s Robert Langer — as well as the researchers in its labs, they designed a unique, leopard tortoise shell-shaped device that had the potential to land on the stomach wall and inject insulin into a patient’s blood stream.
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