Robert W. Link

Robert W. Link is a Scientist II in Computational Biology at Metaphore Biotechnologies since August 2022. Previously, Robert served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Drexel University College of Medicine, where notable work included the development of HIV-Quasipore, a deep learning-based HIV-1-specific basecaller suite. As a Graduate Research Assistant at Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Robert focused on sequence-based deep learning models to explore the impact of HIV-1 Tat variation on miRNA binding and off-target effects for CRISPR-Cas9 gRNA design. Robert's academic background includes a PhD in Computational Biology from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Juniata College, complemented by a minor in Philosophy.