Frank graduated from Clarkson University with a B.S. in Biomolecular Science in 2003. He then went on to work for Varian, Inc. as a Lab Service Engineer until 2009, when he joined the University at Buffalo Pharmaceutical Sciences program as a Ph.D. student. Frank's thesis project in Dr. Balthasar's laboratory focuses around development, characterization, and PKPD modeling of several targeting strategies to efficiently and specifically deliver protein toxins to the target cell cytoplasm in colorectal cancer.