M. Frank Erasmus

Head of Bioinformatics at Specifica

M. Frank Erasmus is the head of bioinformatics at Specifica, Inc. where he specializes in the use of Next-Generation Sequencing technologies to aid in the design of custom therapeutic antibody libraries. Formerly, Frank was awarded a national fellowship from the National Cancer Institute for his translational research associated with B cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia conducted at the Spatiotemporal Modeling Center and Los Alamos National Labs. He brings over 10 years of experience in both biotechnology and academic settings in the development and characterization of therapeutic antibodies using theoretical modeling, bioinformatics and experimental approaches.