Hailing from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Wolu traveled some 8000 miles across the Atlantic (and many more in between) to earn her B.S. in cell biology and computational sciences at Minerva University. Her passion for cancer biology and resolve to take continuous strides towards a better understanding of the disease, and eventual cure, inspires her work as an Associate Computational Biologist in the Beroukhim lab where she investigates copy number alterations and structural variant signatures in cancers.

Favorite quotes: 

“For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven” – King Solomon 

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any” – Alice Walker