Nancy Allbritton is a Professor of Bioengineering and the Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington.

[3] Allbritton received a bachelor of science with a major in physics from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 1979.

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.

[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.