Nora Benhabiles

Current

Co-founder at Biotechnology startup in creation and Consultant

Past

Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedicine at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Paris, France
Head of Bioinformatics and IT at CLINIGENETICS S.A., Nimes France
Visiting Researcher at Institut Biochimie et Physico Chimie, IBPC Paris

Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center For Applied Moelcular Engineering, CAME Salzburg Austria
Ph.D. and Ph.D. student at INSERM

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Education

IESE Business School - University of Navarra
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

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Industry

Biotechnology

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Nora Benhabiles’s Summary

A versatile passionate manager with 10 years of successful experience leading and motivating high performance R&D teams.

5 years of strong specialization in managing an IT and Bioinformatics group in a biotech.

Ability to successfully and passionately give shape to R&D development and participate to the business strategy of the Company with a rigorous and innovative mindset.

Creative, results-oriented, strategic thinking, strong leadership and drive, analytical skills and adaptable.

Nora Benhabiles’s Specialties:

Management, R&D management,
Innovation,
Additional expertize in:
- Biomarkers
- "Omics" (genomics, metabolomics, pharmacogenomics...)
- Chemoinformatics
- Statistics
- IT and Bioinformatics

Global Executive MBA obtained in October 2008, IESE, Spain.

Nora Benhabiles’s Experience

Co-founder

Biotechnology startup in creation and Consultant

(Biotechnology industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Business strategy, scientific collaboration negotiations, license agreements and fund rising.
Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedicine

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Paris, France

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

January 2007 — December 2008 (2 years )

Researches on diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, based on transcriptomic and metabolic pathways analysis in clinical human data and animal models.
Researche on diagnostics and biomarkers related to metabolic syndrome.
Researches on new nutraceuticals compounds against metabolic syndrome related pathologies.
Head of Bioinformatics and IT

CLINIGENETICS S.A., Nimes France

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

January 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 6 months)

R&D on pharmaceutical drugs active on atherosclerosis.
R&D on atherosclerotic plaque development in mini pig model.
Development of a creative IT multifunctional highly integrative platform from a LIMS to various analytical modules (transcriptomics, statistics, genomics, metabonomics, chemoinformatics…).
R&D on gene cluster involved in the atherosclerosis development.
Visiting Researcher

Institut Biochimie et Physico Chimie, IBPC Paris

(Research industry)

May 2001 — December 2001 (8 months)

Theoretical researches on the DNA desolvation by molecular mechanics and dynamics.
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Center For Applied Moelcular Engineering, CAME Salzburg Austria

(Research industry)

April 1999 — April 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Researches on protein folding and threading methods development.
Successful development of a neural network to predict correct protein fold from theoretical threading calculated structures. Invited to present it at the Gordon Conference on Computational Chemistry in Oxford (2000).
Application on CASP4 targets.
Ph.D. and Ph.D. student

INSERM

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

September 1994 — March 1999 (4 years 7 months)

Researches on protein folding, ab initio theoretical methods.
Researches on ab initio force fields, statistical methods.
Application to a new family of HNS-like protein family in Gram- bacteria and MAGE, BAGE, RAGE proteins involved in Cancer.
Training in Non Linear Dynamics in Biology and Medicine (Mc Gill University, Canada, 1996)

Nora Benhabiles’s Education

IESE Business School - University of Navarra

MBA , 2007 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

Modules in Barcelona, Madrid, Silicon Valley and Shanghai
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

Ph.D. , Molecular Biophysics

o Adjunct Professor in France (INSTN-SACLAY, PARIS 7 University, PARIS 6-VERSAILLES Universities) and Belgium (NAMUR University). Period 1997-2001.
o Voluntary teacher in Science and English for the “Ecole à l’Hôpital” association. Period 1994-1997.
o Conferences organization in Paris, First Congress of Biophysics and AEIFR day. Period 1996.

Activities and Societies:

European Society of Mathematics and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB)
Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
French Biophysical Society (SFB)
French Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SFBBM)
Paris 6 Biophysics Master Association (ADBphi)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

Master , Biochemistry / Biophysics