Health and Wellness
Anahita Khojandi has built her career around a guiding belief: Artificial intelligence should empower people—not replace them. A professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Heath Endowed Faculty Fellow in Business and Engineering, Khojandi designs decision-making systems that operate under uncertainty and support human users in high-impact real-world environments.
Lisa C. Lindley’s work has informed pediatric hospice policy nationwide and expanded access to concurrent care, positioning UT as a national leader in compassionate, evidence-based solutions for pediatric end-of-life care.
Joseph Clark, Doowon Kim and Joon Sue Lee have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards for their work developing molecules that facilitate pharmaceutical drug design and evaluation, designing phishing detectors and developing new materials for quantum technology.
The Center for Precision Health — which includes areas for a clinical core facility, advanced medical device innovations, entrepreneurial development and computational medicine — will house UT faculty, UTMC physicians and community partners and is designed to facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration to improve the lives of Tennesseans.
The Spark BioHub, a dedicated life science initiative to support startup companies focused on health and wellness, includes expanded lab space, mentoring opportunities, and entrepreneurial coaching that will help life science entrepreneurs bring their inventions to market.
Researchers in UT’s Tickle College of Engineering and Institute of Agriculture are partnering with technology development firm CFD Research Corporation to create a groundbreaking device that uses biomarkers in the blood to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder and other complex conditions.
