Damilola is a Physician scientist, doctoral research fellow and Ph.d candidate in Infectious Diseases Genomics at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Redeemers University, Nigeria. He has a background in Human Medicine, (M.B.Ch.B), Virology (MSc) and Infectious Diseases (MSc) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom respectively. He is a resident physician in Internal Medicine at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. His research interest revolves around viral hepatitis genomics and transcriptomics studies. His works were the first to identify hepatitis B virus precore region and basal core promoter molecular mutants among HBV mono-infected and HBV/HIV co-infected patients in Nigeria. Damilola is focused on identifying pathogen genomic variability as it impacts host immune responses. He has won several fellowship and scholarship awards ranging from the Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention Foundation Fellowship on Applied Epidemiology, Atlanta Georgia (2013), Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Fellowship on Advanced Genomic Sequencing Technologies and Applications (2020), New York, United States of America, Trialect International Fellowship on Personalised Medicine at the Erasmus Mundus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2022) among others. He has presented his works in International Conferences Worldwide. He is currently a member, technical committee on training and development, Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, (PHA4GE) South Africa under the leadership of Professor Alan Christoffels, a member of the American Society of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Member, World Society of Virology. He has authored and co-authored several manuscripts in reputable journals. He has over hundred viral sequences in GenBank. Damilola enjoys the game of chess in his leisure hours. He resides in Osogbo, Nigeria. He is currently engaged to his heartthrob.