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Dr. Weyemi was born and raised in Benin, West Africa. He subsequently moved to Paris, France for graduate studies, receiving his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in molecular biology from Paris-Sud University. His thesis research focused on the nexus of oncogenic activation, redox homeostasis, and DNA damage responses in cancer.

He conducted postdoctoral research, first at NCI, focusing on redox homeostasis and genomic instability in cancer, and then at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where his work unveiled a novel role for the DNA repair histone H2AX in neuronal health and mitochondrial homeostasis.

Dr. Weyemi joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 as an assistant professor and a CPRIT scholar in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, where he established an independent research group. He was selected as one of the 16 American Sloan Research Fellows in Neuroscience in 2021 for his research on the role of genomic instability and mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration. Dr. Weyemi joined the Developmental Therapeutics Branch in 2022 as a Stadtman Investigator.