Wassim El Nemer is a permanent investigator at Inserm (The National Institute of Health and Medical Research). He earned a Ph.D. in Human Genetics (2000) and a certification in the ability to conduct research (2011) from Paris Diderot University, where he was a teaching assistant between 1996 and 2001. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California San Francisco between 2001 and 2002.