Dr. Rebecca R. Pompano is a Shannon Mid-Career Fellow and Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.  She completed a BS in Chemistry at the University of Richmond (2005) and a PhD (2011) at the University of Chicago.  Dr. Pompano's research interests center on developing cutting edge tools to unravel the complexity of the immune response, in work that is funded by multiple NIH awards. In recognition of her laboratory’s work, she has received a number of awards, including most recently the 2022 Gordon and Betty Moore Inventor Fellowship and an inaugural UVA Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellowship. She was the co-chair and co-founder of the inaugural Gordon Research Conference for Immunoengineering, held in Ventura, CA in July, 2022, and a co-chair of the 2023 meeting for Microscale Separations and Bioanalysis (MSB 2023, Florida). In addition to her research, she is active in building inclusive environments for STEM research and education and currently serves as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Chemistry at UVA.