Press from the Imaging Platform (Carpenter-Singh and Cimini labs)

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

Lab images

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

Articles and other press

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: 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: 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 "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 fourteen things you need to know about collaborating with data scientists (Nature) [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, "Career: Why I shrank my lab by half" (eLife) [PDF of article] [Link to article]

2022: Anne Carpenter and Shantanu Singh featured in "High-affinity binding" (ASBMB Today) [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 magazine [Link to Science magazine 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]

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]