Cynthia Turner
United States of America
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 industry for their investor and advertising markets, including large scale illustrations for medical conference exhibitions and event and print collateral. She is known for creating striking visuals with clarity of message. 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 and served as an inspiration to others in the field. Access Cynthia Turner Newsroom
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Cynthia Turner
Magazine Cover Illustration
Ophthalmic Sustainability is a fantasy illustration depicting a lush, fresh and burgeoning botanical environment flourishing around an heroic eye, for an article discussing the greening of ophthalmology to reduce the amount of discarded packaging, disposables and single-use items used in surgery. The image is for the cover and full page inside lead article of the November 2023 issue of EyeNet, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award - Iron (2024) - Access Cynthia Turner Magazine Cover Illustration Press Kit
Cynthia Turner
Magazine Cover Illustration
Like entities from another world, these tiny delivery mechanisms are fascinating in their variety of shapes and structures, and also in their relation to the watery environment in which they are able to move to intelligently deliver their payloads to the right destination. Nanoparticles are the most common nanocarriers for ocular therapeutics because of their biocompatibility and their capacity to be loaded with drugs and gene therapies by chemical attachment, embedment, or encapsulation in the nanocarrier. Clockwise starting at noon: nanopolymer, nanoemulsion, nanomicelle, and liposome.
A' Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design Award - Iron (2024) - Access Cynthia Turner Magazine Cover Illustration Press Kit
Cynthia Turner
Self Promotional
The artist sought to create 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 induce the cancer cell to destruct.
A' Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design Award - Bronze (2020) - Access Cynthia Turner Self Promotional Press Kit
Cynthia Turner
Self Promotional
Flora is a fantasy illustration to promote the artist’s creativity and storytelling, depicting the flowering of gastrointestinal microbiota fertilized by the churning gastric environment. The flowering is depicted by petals of Bacteroidetes, Bifidobacteriam, and Enterococcus faecalis, pistils of Lactobacillus and stamens of Enterococcus faecalis perched on stalks of Escherichia coli. The flower itself emerges on stalks of Clostridium difficile. Bacillus cereus, long rod-shaped bacteria in their arthomitus stage attach by fibers to the intestinal epithelium, grow filamentously, and sporulate.
A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award - Iron (2020) - Access Cynthia Turner Self Promotional Press Kit