Prof Pierre Schembri-Wismayer, 58, grew up in St Julians, was educated at St Joseph Sliema, De La Salle College Cottonera, The NEw Lyceum ( now Junior College) the University of Malta and the University of Glasgow in association with the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, and now lives in Zabbar with his family. He teaches Anatomy and Cell biology at the University of Malta as part of the medical Faculty and does research on Cancer, Stem cells and Biomechanics at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking. He has published more than 60 peer reviewed publications and is involved in more than 4 patents.

He has been long involved in Science education and communication, was heavily involved in Science in the City and is still involved in Teen Science Cafe, encouraging youngsters in state schools to consider science careers.

He won European funds from the European 6th. Framework programme to lead the Xjenza Malta project and produce a TV series to encourage kids in Science, called X-lab, in collaboration with colleagues from Xandir Malta (Then Education 22) as well as Cypriot and Greek colleagues

He has been involved in inventing the Malta Hip, now being developed by Garland Surgical in the UK and the MaltaKnee device together with engineering colleagues. He was also director of the Stem cell Spin out Denovocell Ltd which has since closed and has collaborated with multiple other departments of the University of Malta and different European groups.

As a student Pierre Schembri-WIsmayer was the president of the MMSA and represented the medical student body in the Faculty board for 2 years. Following his graduation in Medicine and Surgery in 1991, he spent 2 months volunteering as a medic in Kenya, on the Somali Border, working with Maltese Missionaries as well as with the Swedish Rotary Doctors Bank.. He was involved with the late Prof John Rizzo Naudi and other colleagues in forming the SHARE foundation to collect funds for missionaries in Kenya. Locally he has defended the pro-life stance in debates and has regularly provided lectures to expectant couples at Mater Dei antenatal classes regarding the potential benefits of storing their child’s cord blood stem cells. Prof Schembri-WIsmayer was always indirectly involved in politics, being an attendee to the "tan-nurmi" meetings in his teenage years. Since then he has been involved with AD on occasion and has been involved in writing advisory documents and attending multiple advisory meetings relating to Science, particularly the Life Sciences for the MCST and was Malta's EU expert on the life sciences for a number of years. He was co-signatory for the 1st EU-funded project when Malta was paying its contribution to the EU research programmes. This was called TRAIN-NET.

Pierre has decided to be a candidate for Momentum as presently with both major parties dependent on funding by big business and building contractors and not being transparent about their funding, he feels that Maltese politics is being dictated by a few millionaires to the detriment of the national flora and fauna and also of the future generations of Maltese citizens.