Dr Anne Carpenter

Dr. Carpenter leads a team of biologists and computer scientists who develop image analysis and data mining methods and software that are freely available to the public through the open-source CellProfiler project. She collaborates with dozens of biomedical research groups around the world to help identify disease states, potential therapeutics, and gene function from microscopy images. Carpenter is a Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellow, an NSF CAREER awardee, and has also been funded by the NIH, Human Frontiers in Science, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.