Fernando B. Senjobe was born and raised in Uganda, East Africa. He emigrated to the United States of America and obtained an associate degree in Biology at Bunker Hill Community College. Thereafter he transferred and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He trained as an NIH-PREP scholar at Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences before joining the virology program at Harvard University. In the Gaiha lab, he is investigating whether CTLs targeting highly networked epitopes can suppress the persistent HIV latent reservoir.

His hobbies include sleeping, eating, traveling, listening to music and intermittently learning.