Dr Nora Khaldi, founder and chief science officer of Dublin biotechnology company Nuritas, has been chosen as The Irish Times Business Person of the Month for November, an award run in association with KPMG. Nuritas last month secured €30 million from the European Investment Bank to enable it scale up the development of new therapeutics in areas such as anti-aging, anti-inflammatory and diabetes treatment. It says it can find these peptides 10 times faster and 500 times more accurately than traditional methods. Bioinformatics and molecular evolutionDr Khaldi founded the company in 2014 and this funding makes it the first Irish biotech company to be backed by the EIB. Dr Khaldi was originally a mathematician, having obtained a degree in mathematics from the Université Aix-Marseille.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2018 01:18 UTC