Brynn Voy is the interim executive director of the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute. Voy continues to also serve as UT-ORII’s education director, a position she has held for the past two years. Under her leadership, UT–ORII’s UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) doctoral programs have achieved record growth.

A native Tennessean, Brynn received her Ph.D. in physiology and bachelor’s degree in zoology from UT. She then spent 13 years at ORNL, first as a postdoctoral fellow in the Mammalian Genetics and Genomics Group and then as a staff scientist in the Systems Genetics Group through 2009.

Brynn returned to UT to join the faculty in Animal Science, where she is a professor. Brynn recently completed service as the interim head of the Department of Nutrition, a position she held since 2021. She has been involved with the UT-ORNL joint Bredesen Center Genome Science and Technology program since her time at ORNL, serving as a core faculty member in the program since 2005.