Cytokine Storm

• 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 the respiratory ravages of severe acute respiratory syndrome from SARS-CoV-2. Lung epithelial cells are portrayed as a planetary landscape immersed in a cyanotic, watery underworld. Viral budding from the plasma membrane of lung epithelial cells enables coronaviruses to exit the host cell after infection and replication. This initiates a cytokine storm, a sudden and severe over-response all at once from an immune system gone awry, producing an inflammatory response flaring out of control.

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.