Leadership
Anant Madabhushi, PhD
A global leader in developing artificial intelligence (AI) to improve outcomes for individuals with cancer and other diseases, Anant Madabhushi leads our dynamic, multidisciplinary team focused on advancing AI to serve humanity.He holds a primary faculty appointment in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and secondary appointments in the departments of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Biomedical Informatics (BMI), Urology, and Pathology.
Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Madabhushi was at Case Western Reserve University, where he served as the director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and Donnell Institute Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also was a research health scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center.
In 2021 he was honored as one of Crain’s Cleveland Business Notable Entrepreneurs of the year and also was conferred a Faculty Distinguished Research Award by Case Western Reserve University. His work on using AI for addressing health disparities, especially in identifying differences in appearance of prostate cancer between Black and white men, received national attention in 2020.
His work on "Smart imaging computers for identifying lung cancer patients who need chemotherapy" was called out by Prevention Magazine as one of the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2018. In 2019, Nature Magazine hailed him as one of five scientists developing "offbeat and innovative approaches for cancer research." In 2019, 2020 and 2021, Madabhushi was named to The Pathologist’s Power List of 100 inspirational and influential professionals in pathology.
Dr. Madabhushi has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed publications and holds more than 100 patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, radiomics, computational pathology, medical image analysis, and computer vision. He additionally has secured almost $80 million in grant funding and co-founded three companies. He has been involved in several sponsored research and industry partnerships with medical imaging and pharmaceutical companies. In addition, more than 30 technologies developed by Madabhushi’s team have been licensed.
Dr. Madabhushi is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2017, he received the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society award for technical achievements in computational imaging and digital pathology.
Dr. Madabhushi earned a bachelor of engineering from Mumbai University, a master of science in biomedical engineering from University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
