April 30, 2025
Rachel received 2nd place for the presentation of her work developing a tissue-engineered model of the blood-brain barrier at the Fodzar symposium for neuroscience distinguished majors. Congrats, Rachel!
Senior chemistry major Tiffany presents at DMP symposium
April 10, 2024
Tiffany presented her work studying the impacts of fluid flow on a lymph node slice at a symposium for distinguished majors in chemistry.
Sahana and Erin presenting at the 3rd Year Poster Session
April 10, 2025
Dr. Pompano on NPR Marketplace
January 27, 2025
Dr. Pompano spoke on NPR Marketplace about the ramifications of NIH grant reviews being cancelled. Listen here: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/01/27/national-institutes-of-health-research-funding-meetings-trump-administration
Sahana, Erin, Glory, Tiffany, and Morgan present posters at Immunology Research Day
November 21, 2024
Dr. Pompano and Erin at MicroTAS in Montreal!
October 13-17, 2024
Prof. Pompano joins CMBS Board
Congrats to Prof. Pompano, who was appointed to the Director’s Board of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society. This Society organizes and sponsors the annual international microfluidics meeting, MicroTAS. See you at MicroTAS 2024 in Montreal!
NIH Challenge Fund Prize for human immune model
We are so honored that our team's idea won an NIH Complement-ARIE Challenge Prize!
“The National Institutes of Health has announced the winners of a crowdsourcing competition for innovative ideas on New Approach Methodologies, or NAMs to more accurately model human biology. The Complement Animal Research In Experimentation (Complement-ARIE) Challenge Prize competition offered $1,000,000 in total prize money to [twenty] diverse teams with ideas for new ways of using NAMs to conduct basic research, uncover disease mechanisms, and translate knowledge into products and practice.”
Our concept was an Organ-on-Chip system for Population Diversity in Responses to Vaccination, an area that we are passionate about exploring and look forward to opportunities to find funding for this exciting vision in the future.
A fantastic team came together for this idea:
Evangelia Bellas, Temple University
Aarthi Narayanan, George Mason University
Jennifer Munson, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Chance John Luckey, University of Virginia Pathology
Rebecca Pompano, UVA Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
All of the Challenge Prize winning ideas sound very exciting to advance models of human biology. You can read them all here:
https://commonfund.nih.gov/complementarie/highlights/nih-announces-winners-complement-arie-challenge-competition
Congratulations to Drs. Hannah, Jon, and Parris!
Please join us in congratulating our three brand new PhD titles for the spring of 2024! We couldn’t be more proud of all their efforts and accomplishments in lab!
Congratulations Yoojin for NIH Career Rentry Supplement Award!
Please join me in congratulating Yoojin for her successful application for an NIH Career Re-Entry Research Supplement Award! This award provides ~$600k to support Yoojin's future work on integrating a human lymphoid compartment into our multi-organ models of immunity, as well as strategic opportunities for career development. Big congratulations to Yoojin on this well deserved award!
