Naouel Zerrouk is a Computational Biologist currently working at Cure51 since February 2024. Previously, Naouel held the position of CIFRE Associate Scientist at Sanofi from November 2020 to November 2023, focusing on computational modeling of cellular interactions in Rheumatoid Arthritis, particularly examining the roles of innate and adaptive immunity in cartilage destruction and bone erosion. Naouel also completed a Research Internship at GenHotel from 2019 to 2020, where the Master's thesis involved identifying master regulators in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts through microarray and single-cell RNA-seq data analysis, resulting in a published research article. Naouel Zerrouk obtained a Master's degree in Genomics Informatics and Mathematics for Health and Environment from Université Paris-Saclay in 2020 and pursued undergraduate studies in Biotechnology at an Engineering College from 2015 to 2018.