Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Byemerwa is a post-doctoral associate in Dr. Tomi Akinyemiju's lab, where her role is to investigate biological and societal risk factors that contribute to breast cancer and breast cancer outcomes among women of African descent. She joins the team with extensive basic biology knowledge of breast cancer, which she gained during her dissertation work on understanding how female reproductive hormones, especially estrogens, modulate the immune microenvironment during breast cancer metastasis.
Dr. Byemerwa earned her bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Brown University and her PhD in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology from Duke University.