Julius Militante received his PhD degree in Pharmacology under the guidance of John Barry Lombardini at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, TX. He worked as a postdoctoral scientist on the structure and activation of ion channels at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine (Göttingen, Germany), Washington University (St. Louis, MO), and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY), and on the DNA methylation of mitochondrial DNA at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (Springfield, IL). As faculty at the University of Michigan-Flint, he taught Physiology, Anatomy and Pharmacology to graduate and undergraduate students. He received his BSN degree in 2015 and began working as medical-surgical nurse the year after. Since that time, he has also worked in home care serving home-bound children and elderly, in community nursing as a nurse in Covid testing and vaccination sites, and in clinical research as a traveling nurse for clinical trials of paxlovid. In 2022, he earned his MSN degree from Purdue University Global and became certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC). Currently, he is in a two- year Genomic Medicine Program Management Fellowship, sponsored by ACMG and NIH.