Rebecca Pompano

Rebecca Pompano is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. She specializes in developing microfluidic and chemical assays to study immune responses and inform immunotherapies, with a focus on ex vivo tissue models and inter-organ communication.

• Career highlights include a Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award
• Starter Grant Award from the Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (2016)
• NIH R01 grant (2017) for lymph node inflammation modeling

Her research combines bioanalytical chemistry, microfluidics, and immunology to create innovative tools for studying immune dynamics. Recent work explores tumor immunity, neuro-immune communication, and lymph node microphysiological systems. She actively advocates for biomedical research funding on Capitol Hill.