Dr. Noor Khehrah

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Limerick

Research interests: Cancer Genomics, Precision Medicine, Computational Biology, Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics

Noor completed her PhD at the University of Galway in 2023, where she was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Early-Stage Researcher Studentship, in the QUANTII Marie Curie Doctoral Network. Her PhD thesis title was "Differences in immunogenicity between cancer mutation signatures shed light on immunoediting". After completing her PhD, she worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Galway on the HEALED project funded by Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund a collaboration between hospitals, academic institutions, and industrial partners performing next-generation sequencing (NGS) to advance personalized immunotherapy.

Prior to her postdoc, she worked for 1 year as Lead Biostatistician at Ocumetra in Dublin, a company developing prediction models and medical digital diganostics in preventative eyecare.

Noor has also provided consultancy to a startup, AisleVax in Queens University, Belfast, as an expert on neoantigen prediction.