Scott Tanner

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Innovative research on the fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques.

Scott D. Tanner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is coordinating a multidisciplinary, multi-institute project to develop instrumentation, reagents and methods for the multi-parametric determination of biomarkers of individual cells and particles. Following receipt of a PhD in physical chemistry from York University (Toronto) in 1980, he joined Sciex Inc. and stayed for 25 years. By the mid-1980's he was developing ion optics for, and querying the fundamentals of, ICP-MS. At the end of the millennium, Scott and his team began looking at applying the multiplex capability of ICP-MS to bioassays through element-tagging of antibodies. The team left Sciex in 2005 for the University of Toronto to develop the tools and reagents of mass cytometry. Scott received the 2001 Manning Innovation Foundation Award of Distinction and the 2003 W.A.E. McBryde Medal from the Canadian Society for Chemistry.