Impact of CellProfiler on human health

Our CellProfiler software has yielded discoveries in several translational projects, some of which may ultimately have a direct impact on the treatment of disease [read more here].

Public videos of talks and PDF slides

• Links to PDFs of slides from recent talks of Anne Carpenter, Beth Cimini, Shantanu Singh and other lab leaders are available in our Public Slides Folder.
• Videos of talks by Anne Carpenter are available at this playlist: http://broad.io/CarpenterVideos
• Videos of talks by Shantanu Singh are available at this playlist: http://broad.io/SinghVideos

Lab images

Images of the lab and leaders can be found on our Promo page. 

Articles and other press

• 2025: Anne Carpenter is featured in the GEN article “Proteomic Technology From Nomic Flows to 1,000 Plex” discussing the growing role of proteomics and her work with Nomic on the OASIS Consortium and JUMP-Cell Painting Consortium. [Article]

• 2025: Anne Carpenter contributes a guest commentary in the Northwest Indiana Times: "Indiana’s health and economy depend on U.S.-funded science" [PDF]
• 2024: Shantanu Singh interviewed in the Stat News article "Q&A: AI is coming for lots of jobs. What about that of the cancer researcher?" [Link to article]
• 2024: Imaging tools and software developed by Anne Carpenter featured in "AI drug firm Recursion seeks to move from survival to industry domination" [Link to article]
• 2024: Anne Carpenter is quoted in the Stat News article "Using AI, images are fueling a new boom in cell biology"  [Link to article]
• ​2024: Anne Carpenter featured in "50 Scientists that Inspire: Spotlighting researchers who drive innovation" by CellPress [Link to article]​
• ​2024: Anne Carpenter comments on Platform's new research in "Researchers discover that errors in protein location are a common cause of disease" [Link to article]
• 2024: Anne Carpenter interviewed in Technology Networks article "Cell Painting in Drug Discovery: A Conversation With Assay Pioneer Anne Carpenter" [Link to article]​
• ​2024: Beth Cimini is interviewed in special episode on Mental Health on Peter O'Toole's podcast series "The Microscopists" [Link to video]
• ​2024: Shantanu Singh speaks on AI's Drug Revolution (Medscape Medical News) [Link to article] 
• 2024: Anne Carpenter wins 2023-24 MIT Royalty Pharma Prize Competition for biotech entrepreneurship (MIT News) [Link to article]
• 2024. Beth Cimini is interviewed in "Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Beth Cimini" (Focal Plane/ The Company of Biologists) [Link to article]
• 2024: Anne Carpenter quoted in "AI is coming for big pharma" (Engadget) [Link to article]
• 2023: Shantanu Singh is quoted and featured in Nature Methods article "How to build a virtual embryo"[Link to article]​
• 2023: The JUMP–Cell Painting Consortium was highlighted in "From Cells to Drugs: How Cell Painting is Transforming Drug Discovery" (News Medical Life Sciences) [Link to article]
• 2023: Beth Cimini is interviewed on Peter O'Toole's podcast series "The Microscopists" [Link to video]
• 2023: Shantanu Singh is quoted in Nature Journal article, "Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch — but is it any good? ​" [Link to article]
• 2023: Anne Carpenter is quoted in "Scientists say AI is emerging as a potential tool to aid athletes, beat drug tests" (USA Today) [Link to article]
• 2023. Beth Cimini comments and CellProfiler is featured in "AI under the microscope: the algorithms powering the search for cells" [Link to article]
• 2023: Shantanu Singh and Beth Cimini are quoted in "How to spice up your bioinformatics skill set with AI" (Nature) [Link to article]
• 2023 Beth Cimini is interviewed in Nature article "How open-source software could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language" [Link to article]
• 2023: Anne Carpenter's mentorship and leadership were highlighted in an interview with Virginie Uhlmann (EMBL- EBI news) [Link to article]
• 2023. Beth Cimini writes about making collaborations more efficient and effective in Nature article "How I used weaponized laziness to build better collaborations" [Link to article]
• 2023: Anne Carpenter speaks about The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the challenges of building a computing system to help eliminate human disease (Business Insider) [Link to article]
• 2023: Anne Carpenter's work featured in "Automating Cellular Image Analysis to Find Potential Medicines" (Biomedical Beat Blog from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) [Link to article]
• 2023: Feature on Anne Carpenter and Shantanu Singh in "Cell Painting: Exploring the Richness of Biological Images" (The Scientist) [Link to article]
• 2023: The JUMP–Cell Painting Consortium was featured in "A Technique called Cell Painting Could Speed Drug Discovery" (MIT Technology Review) [Link to article]
• 2022: Beth Cimini gives a lesson in High-Content Image Analysis in a featured interview & podcast. (Slas) [Link to article]
• 2022: Anne Carpenter wrote an essay for eLife: "Career: Why I shrank my lab by half"  [Link to article]
• 2022: Beth Cimini discussed the rapid development of deep learning tools in recent years in Nature article "Five ways deep learning has transformed image analysis" [Link to article]
• 2022: Anne Carpenter and Shantanu Singh featured in ASBMB Today article "High-affinity binding"  [PDF of article] [Link to article]
• 2022: Beth Cimini quoted in "Bioimage analysis: has deep learning changed the game?" (BioTechniques) [PDF of article] [Link to article]
• 2022: Beth Cimini spoke about her role at the institute and how bioimage analysis has evolved in recent years due to COVID-19 and the application of deep learning [Link to article]
• 2022: Anne Carpenter participated on an 'Ask the Experts' panel to discuss "The impact of artificial intelligence in drug discovery" [PDF of article] [Link to article]
• 2021: Anne Carpenter and the Imaging Platform was discussed in an article about machine learning and challenges in biomedicine for the Broad Institute [Link to article]
• 2021: Anne Carpenter was interviewed by Quanta magazine about machine learning and her research [Link to article and video]
• 2021: Anne Carpenter was featured in an article by InVivo on “30 Rising Leaders in the Life Sciences” [Link to article]
• 2021: Anne Carpenter interviewed about CellProfiler and her career by Anthony Philippakis from GV and Alex Wiltschko from Google AI, on season two of Theory and Practice [Link to episode]
• 2021: Anne Carpenter featured in Science article "Small images, big picture: Artificial intelligence to revolutionize microscopy" [Link to article
• 2021: Beth Cimini gives her thoughts on ImageJ and Fiji in Nature article "Ten computer codes that transformed science" [Link to article]
• 2021: Anne Carpenter interviewed on Peter O'Toole's podcast series "The Microscopists" [Link to episode]
• 2020: Anne Carpenter speaks about morphological profiling with SelectScience at SLAS [Link to video]
• 2020: Anne and the Carpenter-Singh Lab was featured in an article about microscopy and machine learning for the Broad News [Link to article]
• 2020: Beth Cimini is quoted in Nature's article "Four tools that help researchers working in collaborations to see the big picture" [Link to article]​
• 2019: Anne Carpenter was featured in an AI Series on Drug Discovery / Eureka by Charles River Laboratories [Link to article]
• 2019: Anne Carpenter interviewed about cell imaging and artificial intelligence by BioTechniques [Link to BioTechniques article]
• 2019: Anne Carpenter quoted about image-based profiling and machine learning [Link to Nature article]
• 2019: Feature on lab alum Juan Caicedo [Link to Nature article]
• 2019: Anne Carpenter was featured in an alumni article for the University of Illinois (UICU) [Link to the article]
• 2019: Anne Carpenter discussing the importance of open source software in an interview  with Anna Nowogrodzki for Nature [Link to Nature article]
• 2019: Anne Carpenter was quoted in BioIT World article discussing AI in real-world drug discovery [Link to Article]
• 2019: Anne Carpenter was interviewed for an article on “Big data approaches for drug discovery” for TechNet [Link to Technology Networks article]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter was interviewed about the future of healthcare with AI [Link to article]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter quoted in Nature article about deep learning [Link to Nature article]
• 2018: The Times Higher Ed published an op-ed by Anne Carpenter about the challenges of funding computational support for biological projects [Link to Times Higher Education magazine (Page 24)]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter quoted about the development of ghost cytometry [Link to Scientific American article]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter featured in the BEST OF ISBI section of Computer Vision News [Link to Computer Vision News magazine]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter discusses her career path and the personal side of her science [Link to Broad blog]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter quoted in a Nature special feature on deep learning in biology [Link to Nature article]
• 2018: Focus on Recursion Pharma, which uses CellProfiler and Cell Painting from the Carpenter lab (note: Anne Carpenter serves on their Scientific advisory board) [Link to Technology Review article]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter profiled in Iridescent Learning [Link to Iridescent Learning article]
• 2018: Anne Carpenter featured in Future Science [Link to Future Science article]
• 2017: Anne Carpenter  and CellProfiler featured in BioCentury Innovations’ Tools & Techniques article “Painting for Scientists” [Link to pdf]
• 2017: Anne Carpenter was interviewed as part of a series on AI for Technovation [Link to article]
• 2016: Anne Carpenter profiled in her alma mater's newsletter at the University of Illinois [Link to PDF]
• 2016: Anne Carpenter was interviewed about machine learning and CellProfiler Analyst for Lab Tools (The Scientist) [Link to Article]
• 2016: Anne Carpenter quoted in NatureJobs blog on career prospects for PhD biologists [Link to NatureJobs blog]
• 2016: Science talks to Anne Carpenter about cell painting and the cytomining hackathon [Link to Science magazine article]
• 2016: Anne Carpenter featured in Cell Systems article on best practices for collaborating with computational biologists [Link to PDF]
• 2015: Anne Carpenter profiled in ScienceCareers on her career shift from biology to computation [Link to PDF]
• 2015: Anne Carpenter quoted in Nature feature on the need for staff scientist positions in biology [Link to Nature article]
• 2015: "Ask the Expert" article featuring Anne Carpenter in Lab Manager [Link to Lab Manager article]
• 2015: CellProfiler profiled in "Imaging software targets scientific applications" by VisionSystems Design [Link to VisionSystems Design article]
• 2015: CellProfiler ranks as the top fluorescence cell image analysis tool by Journal of Microscopy [Link to JMicrscopy article]
• 2015: StressMarq Biosciences lists CellProfiler as one of 5 Free Images Analysis Software Tools for Microscopy [StressMarq link]
• 2015: Article about CellProfiler and interview with Anne Carpenter in GEN magazine [Link to GEN magazine article]
• 2013: Blog post about CellProfiler's identifying features [Link to Broad Institute blog]
• 2013: Article mentioning CellProfiler in The Scientist magazine [The Scientist article link] [PDF]
• 2013: CellProfiler exhibit at SLAS 2013 2nd Annual Conference & Exhibition [PDF of poster]
• 2012: Boston Globe article on the best places to work in Boston, featuring Mark-Anthony Bray [Boston Globe link]
• 2012: Vimeo video of an interview with Lee Kamentsky, lead CellProfiler developer (Videography credit: Sam Smiley) [Vimeo link]
• 2012: YouTube video of Mark-Anthony Bray describing what it is like to work at the Imaging Platform, including work on CellProfiler [YouTube link]
• 2012: CellProfiler and WormToolbox [Link to Broad Institute news]
• 2011: Article mentioning CellProfiler in Bioscience Technology [PDF]
• 2011: Article describing CellProfiler Analyst [Link to Broad Institute blog] 
• 2010: CellProfiler and C. elegans [Link to Broad Institute blog]
• 2009: Press release of the CellProfiler project upon receiving Bio-IT 2009 "Best Practices" award [PDF]
• 2008: Public television special featuring Anne Carpenter and the CellProfiler team: Bold Visions: Women in Science and Technology [YouTube link (abridged version)]
• 2007: Article mentioning CellProfiler in The Scientist, Lab Tools: Seeing Faster, Seeing Smarter [Link to Article]
• 2007: Profile of the CellProfiler project team in Biotechniques [PDF]
• 2006: Article about CellProfiler project co-founder, Anne Carpenter in Genome Technology: Imaging Breakthrough by Necessity [PDF]
• 2005: Article about launch of CellProfiler in BioInform [PDF]
• 2004: Interview of Anne Carpenter on high-content screening in Inside BioAssays [PDF]