Kandice Tanner received her doctoral degree in Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She trained as a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Post-doctoral fellow jointly at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Tanner integrates concepts from molecular biophysics and cell biology to understand organ specific metastasis . In recent years, she has received the 2023 Max Planck-Humboldt medal, 2023 ASCB E.E. Just award and the 2021 Arthur S. Flemming award. She is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Cell Biology.