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Anne E. Carpenter
Institute Scientist
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Other Affiliations : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D '03
Dr. Carpenter is an Institute Scientist and Merkin Institute Fellow at the Broad Institute. Her research group develops algorithms and data analysis methods for large-scale experiments involving images. The team’s open-source CellProfiler software is used by thousands of biologists worldwide CellProfiler. Carpenter is a pioneer in image-based profiling, the extraction of rich, unbiased information from images for a number of important applications in drug discovery and functional genomics. Carpenter has been named an NSF CAREER awardee, an NIH MIRA awardee, a Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellow (its youngest at the time), and a Genome Technology “Rising Young Investigator”.
