For reprints of any of these publications, please email Dr. Pompano: rpompano [at] virginia.edu. Any PDFs are provided solely for personal or educational use. We are fortunate to have several stellar undergraduate researchers in the lab. (#) Indicates undergraduate co-author.
Tochukwu Ozulumba, Jonathan M. Zatorski, Abhinav Arneja, Jennifer H. Hammel, Thomas J. Braciale, Chance John Luckey, Jennifer M. Munson, Rebecca R. Pompano. “Mitigating reactive oxygen species production and increasing gel porosity improves lymphocyte viability and fibroblast spreading in photocrosslinked gelatin-thiol hydrogels.” Submitted. [BioRxiv preprint available, prior to peer review]
Hannah B. Musgrove, Sophie R. Cook, and Rebecca R. Pompano. “Parylene-C coating protects resin 3D printed devices from materials erosion and cytotoxicity.” ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023. [Publisher link] [ChemRxiv][Design Files]
Ozulumba T, Montalbine AN (#), Ortiz-Cárdenas JE, Pompano RR. “New tools for immunologists: Experimental and computational models of lymph node function from cell to tissue levels”. Frontiers in Immunology, 2023, 14, doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1183286. Review article, open access.
Ortiz-Cárdenas JE, Zatorski JM, Arneja A, Montalbine AN (#), Munson JM, Luckey CJ, & Pompano RR. “Towards spatially-organized organs-on-chip: Photopatterning cell-laden thiol-ene and methacryloyl hydrogels in a microfluidic device.” Organs-on-a-Chip, 2022, 4, 100018 [Publisher link]
Featured in Emerging Investigators in Organs-on-a-Chip special issue.
Jennifer H. Hammel, Jonathan M. Zatorski, Sophie R. Cook, Rebecca R. Pompano, Jennifer M. Munson. “Engineering in vitro immune-competent tissue models for testing and evaluation of therapeutics,” Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (2022). 182, 114111. [Publisher link]
Megan A. Catterton, Alexander G. Ball, and Rebecca R. Pompano. "Rapid Fabrication by Digital Light Processing 3D Printing of a SlipChip with Movable Ports For Local Delivery to Ex Vivo Organ Cultures" Micromachines (2021) 12, no. 8: 993. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080993 [Link, open access]
JH Hammel’, SR Cook’, MC Belanger’, JM Munson, and RR Pompano. “Modeling Immunity In Vitro: Slices, Chips, and Engineered Tissues.” Annual Review of Biomedical Eng, 2021, online ahead of print. [pubmed] ‘Equal contributions.
Shim S, Belanger MC, Harris AR, Munson JM, & Pompano RR. “Two-way communication between tissues on a microfluidic chip: application to tumor-lymph node interaction.” Lab on a Chip (2019), 19, 1013-1026. [link] [PubMed]
Part of the LOC Organ-, body- and disease-on-a-chip themed collection.
Ross AE, Pompano RR. "Diffusion of cytokines in live lymph node tissue using microfluidic integrated optical imaging." Analytica Chimica Acta (2018), 1000, 205-213. [Journal Link][Accepted Manuscript PDF]
Featured in the 1000th volume of Analytica Chimica Acta
Early work highlighted in C&E News coverage of the 2017 national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Catterton MA, Dunn AF, & Pompano RR. "User defined local stimulation of living tissue through a movable microfluidic port." Lab on a Chip (2018), 18: 2003-2012. [link] [Pubmed]
Featured in the Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigator Series.
