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Daniel Reker

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests


Integration of active machine learning, biomedical data science, and biochemical experiments for the analysis and design of personalized therapeutic opportunities.

Selected Grants


Designing Personalized Formulations with Machine Learning

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028

NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027

University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2027

Computational Design of Antibody-Drug-Excipient Nanoparticles

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2026

Predicting the effects of microbial metabolites on NOD¿like receptors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2022

Designing Personalized Formulations with Machine Learning

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028

NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027

University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2027

Computational Design of Antibody-Drug-Excipient Nanoparticles

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2026

Predicting the effects of microbial metabolites on NOD¿like receptors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2022

Identifying the molecular mediators of microbiome-host interactions through machine learning

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2021 - 2022

External Relationships


  • Areteia Therapeutics
  • F1000 Research, Chemical Information Gateway
  • Frontiers In Drug Discovery
  • Guidepoint Global
  • JSR Corporation
  • Areteia Therapeutics
  • F1000 Research, Chemical Information Gateway
  • Frontiers In Drug Discovery
  • Guidepoint Global
  • JSR Corporation
  • Start2

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