Anshu Agarwal

Anshu is working on degradable, thermally responsive polymers for drug delivery. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering and Materials Science (2019) and her M.S. in Materials Science (2020) from the University of California, Berkeley, and worked at Align Technology as an R&D Engineer before coming to Duke. In her free time Anshu serves as Vice President on the MEMS Graduate Student Committee, and enjoys hiking, cooking, and knitting.

Publications:

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

McDonald, S.M.; Bu, Y.; Dreger, N.Z.; Messmore, B.; McFarland, G.; Agarwal, A.; Yager, K.G.; Tsai, E.; Becker, M.L. Stereochemical Control of Water Transport Properties in Thiol-yne Polymers. Advanced Materials, 2025, e08392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202508392

Agarwal, A.; Bobay, B. G.; Becker, M. L. Observation of Dynamic Aggregation Behavior in Thermoresponsive Micro- and Nanoparticles via Diffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of American Chemical Society 2025. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c16415.

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. DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202402800.