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[[Picturing Cells: A GE bio-scientist talks about imaging cancer cells and saving lives.]]
[[Fiona Ginty, Senior Scientist, Computational Biology and Biostatistics Lab]]
[Hello, my name is Fiona Ginty.]
[I'm a scientist in the bio-sciences organization at GE Global Research.]
[I've been here 4 years, and I am working on cancer and different ways to image cancer]
[and understand better what cancer is doing and how it works within the body.]
[That will lead to new drug treatments hopefully.]
[So, I'll show you now what pathologists are looking at today when they are doing a diagnosis]
[This just is one representation of a sample from a prostate cancer patient, ]
[and all you can see here are pink and purple colors,]
[but there is a lot of information in there that the pathologists cannot see by eye.]
[So, the technology that we have developed allows us to reveal some of that inner information]
[that is contained within that very, very same sample, so just showing you what I mean,]
[if I go to the next slide, it shows you some new information]
[ that wasn't present in the first image.]
[If I go one more step again, it's showing you another piece of information]
[that wasn't present in the first slide.]
[By building up a series of images from the same sample, we can figure out ]
[what the proteins are within that sample and how they are behaving,]
[how they are grouping together, and how, in turn, that relates to cancer survival]
[and response to drug therapies.]
[It also helps us understand on a scientific level how the disease is working,]
[and that in turn enables discoveries downstream.]
[We generate really beautiful images and sometimes lose sight of the fact ]
[that they come from patients who have suffered or who have died from cancer,]
[but it shows the amount of information that is present within a tissue]
[and that in turn is going to help patients in the future.]
[I've been fortunate within my immediate family that we haven't been directly affected]
[by cancer, but I do have friends who at a young age have developed breast cancer,]
[and so it is important for me to feel like I'm contributing something to help them]
[and people like them in the future.]
[It's really only technologies and new technologies that can help us]
[understand what cancer is doing to the body.]
[One of my personal wishes is that I can help people like my friends and people who I know]
[who have been affected by cancer, that they get better treatment in the future, ]
[and that they have a better outcome and a better survival,]
