Cancer Assassin

• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Other Graphic Design / Other Graphic Design
• Company
  Alexander & Turner Inc. Medical Illustration Studio
• Lead
  Cynthia Turner
• Team
  Cynthia Turner
• Client
  Alexander & Turner Inc. Medical Illustration Studio

Self-promotional work for pharmaceutical clients, depicting a portrait of the dramatic moment the death grip of a Natural Killer T cell overcomes a cancer cell’s defenses, memorializing a moment humanity desires. Cytotoxic Natural Killer T cells are cancer assassins that induce cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death known as apoptosis. Natural Killer T cells recognize specific sites on the surface of cancer cells called antigens, bind to them, and release biochemical proteins that form pores in the cancer cell's membrane and specifically induces the cancer cell to destruct.

Cynthia Turner is a certified medical illustrator and a Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators. Her work focuses on the visual needs of the pharmaceutical and biotech research for their investor and advertising markets. Cynthia is the recipient of the 2014 Brödel Award for Excellence in Education for outstanding educational contributions to the profession of medical illustration and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award whose extraordinary lifelong contributions to the advancements of medical illustration and scientific knowledge have set the highest standards of the profession.