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Chris Frank
Associate Director, Translational Genomics,
Verge Genomics
Chris Frank holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Duke University. He has worked in platform biotech startup companies for the last 8 years where he has successfully built new computational functions and teams for functional genomics technology development and target discovery applications. Chris is currently Associate Director of Data Science at Verge Genomics where he leads a team of computational biologists that apply the human tissue genomics based systems biology and ML platform to target discovery problems for neurological and autoimmune diseases.