SEMINAR: �Microdevices for Cells, Tissues, and Organs�

Dr. Allbritton obtained her B.S. in physics from Louisiana State University, her Ph.D. in Medical Physics/Medical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. Upon completion of a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at Stanford University, she joined the faculty of the University of California at Irvine in 1994 where she held joint appointments in the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering & Materials Science. She has received multiple awards including a Beckman Young Investigator Award, and a Searle Scholar Award and is a Fellow in the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering.

She joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) as the Debreczeny Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry in July, 2007 followed by a joint appointment with the School of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology. In 2009, she was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint department between the School of Medicine at UNC and the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Allbritton's research studies are directed at the development of new technologies by bringing to bear methods from engineering, chemistry, physics and biology to address biomedical problems. This research program has been heavily funded by the National Institutes of Health with over $40 million in grant funding since 1994. Dr. Allbritton is the scientific founder of two companies, Protein Simple and Cell Microsystems, and has 10 issued patents with over 20 more pending.