Eden Tanner
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Co-Director for the Center for Nano-Bio Interactions
I am an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. I lead a research group interested in solving drug delivery problems with a chemistry toolkit and I teach General Chemistry. I am passionate about serving students and making Chemistry as accessible as possible in the classroom and the laboratory.
Research Interests
- Ionic Liquids
- Drug Delivery
- Nanomaterials
Biography
Dr. Eden E. L. Tanner completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Science (Chemistry) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She earned her doctorate in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford with Prof Richard G. Compton, and moved to Harvard University in 2017 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Samir Mitragotri.
As of August 2020, Dr. Tanner is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Mississippi. The Tanner Lab works at the interface of Chemistry and Bioengineering with a focus on using ionic liquids to solve problems in nanoparticle drug delivery.
Ionic Liquid Coating-Driven Nanoparticle Delivery to the Brain: Applications for NeuroHIV
Investigation of physicochemical drivers directing ionic liquid assembly on polymeric nanoparticles
Selective Near-Infrared Blood Detection Driven by Ionic Liquid–Dye–Albumin Nanointeractions
Courses Taught
- CHEM 105 General Chemistry I
- CHEM 106 General Chemistry II
Education
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Oxford (2017)