Kandice Tanner received her doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She completed post-doctoral training at the University of California, Irvine specializing in dynamic imaging of thick tissues. She then became a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Post-doctoral fellow jointly at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Tanner is currently a National Cancer Institute as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator. Her lab is focused on the early stages of metastasis, when one or a few cells have disseminated from the primary tumor, survived migration, and entered distant organs.  She has been awarded the 2013 National Cancer Institute Director’s Intramural Innovation Award, the 2015 NCI Leading Diversity award, Federal Technology Transfer Award in 2016 and 2018, the 2016 Young Fluorescence Investigator award from the Biophysical Society, and named as a Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering in 2016 by the Biomedical Engineering Society.