Carol A. Heckman
Bowling Green State University, USA
Biography
Carol Heckman is an expert on preneoplasia and image analysis and has developed optical and computational methods suitable for cell feature analysis. Applying these methods, she showed how to deconstruct the cell phenotype and find the features related to oncogenic transformation. About half of the 20 features are useful in distinguishing the phenotypes of normal and cancerous epithelial cells. She has published numerous papers on these topics. The cell features form the basis of an assay to flag chemicals of interest for drug development and identify diseases that can be targeted productively by existing drugs.
Abstract
Abstract : Structural aspects of cell signaling