Diversity in Biomedical Careers Luncheon

Yale University Biomedical Engineering
Diversity in Biomedical Careers Luncheon

Join us for the Inaugural Diversity in Biomedical Careers Luncheon.
This event kicks off a series of casual conversations with scientific leaders focusing on the range of their career trajectories.

Kandice Tanner, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
National Institute of Health (NIH)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Brief Bio: Kandice Tanner received her doctoral degree in Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign under Professor Enrico Gratton. 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 under Dr. Mina J. Bissell. Dr. Tanner joined the National Cancer Institute as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in July 2012, where she integrates concepts from molecular biophysics and cell biology to learn how cells and tissues sense and respond to their physical microenvironment, and to thereby design therapeutics and cellular biotechnology.

For her work, Dr. Tanner 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.

Dr. Tanner also maintains strong connections with the extramural community through service as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and as a review editor for Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology. She currently serves on the Committee for Inclusion and Diversity of the Biophysical Society, a Member at large for the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society and on the membership committee of the American Society of Cell Biology.

May 14, 2019
12:00pm
The Mann Student Center
Dunham Lab
10 Hillhouse Ave, RM 107

Hosted By: Anjelica Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Lunch will be provided