Originally from Egypt, Nouran completed her undergraduate studies in biology and biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute before attaining a masters degree at the University of Cambridge under a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She continued her doctoral studies in Stephen Elledge’s lab at Harvard engineering T cell receptors for cancer immunotherapy using directed evolution and high-throughput approaches. Her current research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Koch Institute at MIT is focused on characterizing and amplifying modified messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination platforms to potentiate anti-tumor immunity.