Chris Frank
Computational Biology | Target Discovery | Functional Genomics | Multi-Omics | Neuroscience
- Role
- Target Informatics Lead, Astellas Innovation Lab at Astellas Pharma
- Location
- Durham, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Frank
Computational biologist with 9 years of experience leading translational genomics teams for drug discovery. Passionate about building high-performing data science teams dedicated to making progress in drug discovery efforts.Bioinformatics and data science skillset, with strategic leadership experience and disease area expertise in neurodegenerative, neuropsychiatric, and rare diseases.
Experience
Target Informatics Lead, Astellas Innovation Lab
Jan 2026 — Present · Boston, MA, US
Education
Duke University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
2010 — 2015
University of Maryland
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
2006 — 2010
Skills
- Pcr
- Western Blotting
- Genetics
- Molecular Genetics
- Microbiology
- Dnase-Seq
- Epigenetics
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Molecular Cloning
- Crispr/Cas9
- Science
- Research
- Cell Biology
- Qpcr
- Unix
- R
- Molecular Biology
- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
- Python
- Data Analysis
- Functional Genomics
- Epigenome Editing
- Cell Culture
- Bioinformatics
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