At Culmination, Dr. Frankenberger is assembling a team to develop the Intelligence platform further. In his role, he will provide expertise and vision to align our products and platform to our mission - “to discover better health.”

Before Culmination, Dr. Frankenberger was the Chief Research Informatics Officer at Rush University Medical Center. He managed a large team of clinical informaticians, data analysts, statisticians, bioinformaticians, and cloud engineers. While at Rush, he co-led the first native integration of the genomics module into the Epic EHR and helped modernize the clinical research system used for implementing and tracking clinical trials. He was invited to the White House to present his work using AI methods to match patients to clinical trials. Additionally, he was a Microsoft fellow and developed the first Azure-based Gen3 data commons platform to host “the learning healthcare system” data commons project at Rush.

Before Rush, Dr. Frankenberger was the third employee and head of computational biology and clinical translation at Tempus Labs, a Chicago-based unicorn startup that provides NGS and data/analytics solutions at scale for healthcare and life science organizations. While at Tempus, he was a technical director during the lab CAP accreditation process and worked with the commercial team at academic medical centers and with community care providers.

Dr. Frankenberger has also worked in other rapidly growing startups, such as C2i genomics, which raised over $100M, and utilizes WGS to detect cancer recurrence from blood. He was trained at Rush University Medical Center, obtaining a PhD in Biochemistry, and then worked as a postdoc doing computational biology in cancer research at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career, he worked in lab automation for high-throughput genomic applications at the National Cancer Institute.