Courtney Dziewior​

Courtney investigates the design and fabrication of drug delivery materials for pain management using polymer nanodelivery systems. Courtney is a NIH T32 Pharmacological Sciences Training Program recipient and a Duke OTC fellow. She earned her BS in Chemistry and BA in Music from Converse University (2021) with Honors in Chemistry. Outside of the lab, Courtney enjoys pottery, photography, hiking, and spending time with her cats Luna and Misha.

Publications:

Dziewior, C.S.; Cole, B.; Qian, Y.; Coaker, K.; Nackley, A.G.; Franklin, A.D.; Becker, M.L. Thermally driven release of oxycodone from poly(ester urea) think films by printed microheaters for transdermal delivery. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c16045

Dziewior, C.S; Li, Y.; Song, S.; Agarwal, A.; Coaker, K.; Judge, N.G.; Ji, R. R.; Becker, M. L. Additive Accelerated Meloxicam Release from Poly(Ester Urea) Fiber Implants for Acute Pain Management. Adv. Healthc. Mater. 2025. DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202503669 

Stinson, N. C.; Matsuoka, Y.; Agarwal, A.; Dziewior, C. S.; McDonald, S. M.; Li, Y.; Godwin, K.; Ji, R. R.; Becker, M. L. Pre‐Clinical Assessment of Bupivacaine‐Loaded Poly(ester urea) Thin Films for Controlled Drug Release and Effective Pain Management After Surgery. Advanced Healthcare Materials 2024. 

Judge, N.G.; Segal, M.I.; Silzer, R.O.; Dziewior, C. S.; Chan, Y.M.; Grovogel, S.; Becker, M.L. Semi-Aromatic Polyester-ethers with Tunable Degradation Profiles. ACS Macro Letters. 2024, 13(11), 1531-1538. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00617

Bahnick, A. J.; Dziewior, C. S.; Li, Y.; Chou, A.; Segal, M.; Augustine, E. K.; Ji, R. R.; Becker, M. L. Controlled Transdermal Delivery of Dexamethasone for Pain Management via Photochemically 3D-Printed Bioresorbable Microneedle Arrays. Adv. Healthc. Mater. 2024, e2402113. DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202402113 

Dziewior, C. S.; Godwin, K. G.; Judge, N. G.; Dreger, N. Z.; Becker, M. L. Poly(ester urea)s: Synthesis, Material Properties and Biomedical Applications. Prog. Polym. Sci. 2024, 156, e101866. DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2024.101866

Dziewior, C. S. Investigation of Ring-Opening Metathesis – Cross-Metathesis Reaction and Synthetic Efforts Towards the Development of Stimuli-Responsive Programmable Polymers. B.S. Thesis, Converse University, Spartanburg, SC, 2021. 

Dziewior, C. S.; Strickland, S. M. S.; Li, P.; and Shimizu, K. D., Synthesis of Stimuli-Responsive Programmable Polymers Through Ring-Opening–Metathesis Cross-Metathesis (ROM-CM). J. S.C. Acad. Sci., 2019, 17 (2), 1-3.