Carolyn Anderson

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Medicine: Radiopharmaceutical Therapies | Department of Nuclear Engineering

Carolyn J. Anderson is an internationally renowned radiopharmaceutical scientist and the University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Medicine: Radiopharmaceutical Therapies, where she serves as a professor of nuclear engineering and researcher at ORNL. Her research focuses on radiometal-based imaging agents and targeted radiopharmaceutical therapies for cancer, and she has held faculty and leadership positions at the University of Missouri, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Pittsburgh. Anderson has received numerous prestigious honors, including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s Michael J. Welch Award, Paul C. Aebersold Award, and Georg de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award, as well as the American Chemical Society’s Glenn T. Seaborg Award in Nuclear Chemistry.