Ankit Agarwal, 2009 Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (WEB) graduate, has secured one of 13 awards given by the Kauffman Foundation national postdoctoral competition for his research in biomedicine. He will become part of the first class of Kauffman Postdoctoral Fellows, a new program that aims to empower postdoctoral students to commercialize their scientific discoveries.

Agarwal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in biochemical engineering and biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India in 2002, and a PhD in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 2007. Agarwal primarily works on translational research projects combining a variety of advances in material sciences with applications in biomedicine. His work was recognized as an “outstanding contribution by a graduate student” at the annual meeting of the Society for Biomaterials and Gordon Research Conference – Polymers (West) in 2007. Agarwal’s research has been published, and has resulted in one patent application and two intellectual property disclosures filed in 2009.

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