Dr. Anurag Agrawal is an Indian pulmonologist and medical researcher, currently serving as Dean of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, and the former Director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a CSIR institution.
Known for his studies on lung diseases, Dr. Agrawal is a senior DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance fellow. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian science award, for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2014, as well as the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2015.
His current focus areas include the use of information technology and big data analytics for effective application of community health efforts and development of pattern-based diagnostics. His research has significantly advanced the understanding of lung biology, airway disease, and genomics in the Indian context.
Publications
1. Ahmad T, Mukherjee S, Pattnaik B, Kumar M, Singh S, Kumar M, Rehman R, Tiwari BK, Jha KA, Barhanpurkar AP, Wani MR, Roy SS, Mabalirajan U, Ghosh B, Agrawal A. Miro1 regulates intercellular mitochondrial transport & enhances mesenchymal stem cell rescue efficacy. *EMBO J.* 2014 Jan 15;33(9):994–1010. doi: [10.1002/embj.201386030](https://doi.org/10.1002/embj.201386030). PubMed PMID: 24431222; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4193933.
2. Negi V, Paul D, Das S, Bajpai P, Singh S, Mukhopadhyay A, Agrawal A, Ghosh B. Altered expression and editing of miRNA-100 regulates iTreg differentiation. *Nucleic Acids Res.* 2015 Jul 23;43(16):8057–65. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkv752](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv752). PubMed PMID: 26209130; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4652766.
3. Paliwal S, Chaudhuri R, Agrawal A, Mohanty S. Regenerative abilities of mesenchymal stem cells through mitochondrial transfer. *J Biomed Sci.* 2018 Mar 30;25(1):31. doi: [10.1186/s12929-018-0429-1](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12929-018-0429-1). PubMed PMID: 29602309; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5877369.
4. Pattnaik B, Negi V, Chaudhuri R, Desiraju K, Faizan MI, Akhtar A, Ansari MS, Shakir M, Gheware A, Prakash YS, Guleria R, Ghosh B, Agrawal A, Ahmad T. MiR-326-mediated overexpression of NFIB offsets TGF-β induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition and reverses lung fibrosis. *Cell Mol Life Sci.* 2023 Nov 11;80(12):357. doi: [10.1007/s00018-023-05005-1](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-023-05005-1). PubMed PMID: 37950757; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11072886.
5. Arvind M, Pattnaik B, Gheware A, Prakash YS, Srivastava M, Agrawal A, Bhatraju NK. Plausible role of INPP4A dysregulation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. *Physiol Rep.* 2024 May;12(9):e16032. doi: [10.14814/phy2.16032](https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.16032). PubMed PMID: 38720166; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11078778.
