Based in Dublin, Nuritas combines artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural bioactive peptides. Nuritas is working to help manage and improve human health.
Nora Khaldi is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nuritas, an artificial intelligence platform aimed at identifying and utilizing bio-active peptides derived from food sources, which she incorporated in 2014. She is currently based in Dublin, Ireland.
Nora Khaldi was born in Algeria to an Irish mother and a French father. Her parents had showed her science documentaries from a young age which ignited the desire to be a scientist, and that’s exactly what she became. Even when all her schoolmates wanted to be superheroes, Khaldi wanted to be a scientist.
In 2004, she received her Master’s degree in Mathematics from Université Aix-Marseille. She continued her study by pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution from Trinity College Dublin with research focused primarily on protein evolution and comparative genomics. This was followed by a research fellowship in University College Dublin. She completed her PhD in 2008. She chose to pursue this subject since she wanted to combine her expertise in mathematics with her passion for biology.
During her postdoctoral study, she was also a visiting scholar in University of California, Davis, where during this time, she developed Nuritas with the help of Davis Roots, the nonprofit business accelerator associated with UC Davis. She developed her own proprietary technology for this and was inspired to do so during her research career, where she was exposed with the limitations of research and development into the field of therapeutic ingredients by businesses in the food industry.
Some of Nora’s publications have been placed in a library of the top 2% of published articles in the fields of biology and medicine.
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