Nancy Allbritton Explained

Nancy Allbritton
Nationality:American
Fields:Biomedical Engineering
Workplaces:University of Washington University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
Alma Mater:Louisiana State University (BS)
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
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Nancy Allbritton is a Professor of Bioengineering and the Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. She was previously a Kenan Professor and Chair in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.[1]

She is best known for her work in single-cell analysis. Using engineering methods, Allbritton creates tools for better understanding and manipulating living cells and tissues. Microengineered platforms, microfluidics, and novel biochemical assays enable scientists to study cell signaling and signal transduction at the single-cell level.[2]

Education

Allbritton received a bachelor of science with a major in physics from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 1979. She received a doctor of medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and a doctor of philosophy in medical physics and medical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.[3]

Career

Allbritton was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 1989 to 1994. She then became a Professor at the University of California at Irvine, teaching in the departments of Physiology and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. She remained at UC Irvine for 13 years, from 1994-2007.[4]

In 2007 Allbritton joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming a Kenan Distinguished Professor. From 2009-2019 she was the Chair of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.[1] She has held faculty appointments in Chemistry, Pharmacology and Applied Physical Sciences at UNC, and in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State.[5]

As of November 1, 2019, Allbritton became a Professor of Bioengineering and the Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering at the University of Washington College of Engineering.[6] [7]

Allbritton was appointed a co-editor of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry in 2021.[8]

Research interests

Allbritton's interest in single-cell analysis have hinged on the use of capillary electrophoresis (CE) and microfabricated technologies. Through this work she has studied lipid signaling at the single-cell level, the isolation cytotoxic t-cells with specific properties, and the capture of colonic crypts. In the organ-on-a-chip field,[9] Allbritton has used fabrication technologies from electronics and microfluidics to develop devices that effectively recreate the environment of both the small and large intestine.[10] [11] These include micro total analysis systems[12] [13] and microraft arrays.[14] In the area of dielectrophoresis (DEP), Allbritton's lab works on the transfer of DEP-based systems out of laboratories and into clinical use.[15]

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Patents

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meet the Team | Single-Cell Isolation and Recovery . Cellmicrosystems.com . 2017-05-01.
  2. Web site: October 30, 2014 . Distinguished Seminar Series: Nancy Allbritton, Professor and Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering University of North Carolina & North Carolina State University . 2 August 2018 . UCDavis Biomedical Engineering.
  3. Web site: 2020-04-27 . Nancy Allbritton UW Bioengineering . 2022-10-06 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Nancy Allbritton . College of Engineering . University of Washington . 8 September 2021.
  5. News: Lancaster . Brent . Allbritton leaving Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering . 8 September 2021 . College of Engineering News . NC State University . August 23, 2019.
  6. Web site: Nancy L. Allbritton . American Institute of Chemical Engineers . 26 May 2020 . 8 September 2021.
  7. Web site: Dr. Nancy Allbritton named dean of UW's College of Engineering . Jackson . Holtz August 13, 2019. August 13, 2019 . 2020-06-24. UW News. en.
  8. Web site: Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, Current Editorial Committee. Annual Reviews. 9 July 2021.
  9. Ma . Chao . Peng . Yansong . Li . Hongtong . Chen . Weiqiang . Organ-on-a-Chip: A New Paradigm for Drug Development . Trends in Pharmacological Sciences . February 2021 . 42 . 2 . 119–133 . 10.1016/j.tips.2020.11.009. 0165-6147 . 33341248 . 7990030 .
  10. Landhuis . Esther . Microbial chemistry gains fresh focus . Nature . 26 September 2019 . 573 . 7775 . 615–616 . 10.1038/d41586-019-02853-5 . 31551561 . 2019Natur.573..615L . free .
  11. News: Researchers awarded $5.3 million to develop novel gut-on-a-chip technology . 8 September 2021 . UNC College of Arts & Sciences . October 12, 2015.
  12. Zhuang . Jianjian . Yin . Juxin . Lv . Shaowu . Wang . Ben . Mu . Ying . Advanced "lab-on-a-chip" to detect viruses – Current challenges and future perspectives . Biosensors and Bioelectronics . September 2020 . 163 . 112291 . 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112291 . 32421630 . 7215165 .
  13. Kovarik . Michelle L. . Ornoff . Douglas M. . Melvin . Adam T. . Dobes . Nicholas C. . Wang . Yuli . Dickinson . Alexandra J. . Gach . Philip C. . Shah . Pavak K. . Allbritton . Nancy L. . Micro Total Analysis Systems: Fundamental Advances and Applications in the Laboratory, Clinic, and Field . Analytical Chemistry . 15 January 2013 . 85 . 2 . 451–472 . 10.1021/ac3031543 . 23140554 . 3546124 .
  14. Smiddy . Nicole M. . DiSalvo . Matthew . Allbritton-King . Jules D. . Allbritton . Nancy L. . Microraft array-based platform for sorting of viable microcolonies based on cell-lethal immunoassay of intracellular proteins in microcolony biopsies . The Analyst . 2020 . 145 . 7 . 2649–2660 . 10.1039/D0AN00030B . 32048684 . 7117799 . 2020Ana...145.2649S .
  15. Çağlayan . Zeynep . Demircan Yalçın . Yağmur . Külah . Haluk . A Prominent Cell Manipulation Technique in BioMEMS: Dielectrophoresis . Micromachines . 3 November 2020 . 11 . 11 . 990 . 10.3390/mi11110990 . 33153069 . 7693018 . free .
  16. Web site: Nancy Allbritton . UNC Lineberger . 8 September 2021.
  17. Web site: Searle Scholars Program : Nancy L. Allbritton (1995). searlescholars.net. 2019-04-19.
  18. Web site: Nancy Allbritton . Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation . 1 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180802041101/http://www.beckman-foundation.org/beckman-young-investigators/nancy-allbritton . 2 August 2018 . dead .
  19. Web site: Academic Senate - Irvine Division - Committee on Scholarly Honors and Awards . . 8 September 2021.
  20. Web site: Nancy Allbritton. UNC Lineberger. April 12, 2017.
  21. Web site: NIH Director's Transformative Research Award Recipients 2015 Awardees . National Institutes of Health . 18 September 2018 . 8 September 2021.
  22. News: Chemical Instrumentation . ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry . 12 July 2017 . 8 September 2021.
  23. Web site: Edward Kidder Graham Faculty Service Award . Office of Faculty Governance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . 8 September 2021.
  24. News: Allbritton named 2017 UNC-Chapel Hill Inventor of the Year . 8 September 2021 . UNC College of Arts & Sciences . June 16, 2017.
  25. Web site: Delonas . Cindy . Nancy L. Allbritton Wins Ralph N. Adams Award . LCGC . 8 September 2021. February 27, 2020.
  26. News: BME Chair Emeritus Nancy Allbritton to Receive 2021 Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award . 8 September 2021 . Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering . University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University . May 14, 2021.

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