Kandice Tanner is a Trinidad and Tobago biophysicist researching the metastatic traits that allow tumor cells to colonize secondary organs.

Her father was a manufacturing engineer and her mother stayed at home with Tanner and her siblings for 7 years before returning to the workplace.

[2][4] Tanner's dissertation was titled "Cat"-ology: spectrally resolved neurophotonics in the mammalian brain and phantom studies.

[4][6] Tanner's expertise includes multimodal imaging platforms, 3D cell culture, biophysics, mechanobiology, and breast cancer.

The laboratory studies are focused on understanding how physical cues from the tissue microenvironment drive organ specific metastasis.