Raheleh Hatami, Ph.D.

Raheleh Hatami, Ph.D., is Director, Portfolio Strategy and Innovation, Deerfield Discovery and Development, and joined the Firm in 2023. Prior to Deerfield, Dr. Hatami was a Healthcare Investor at Innovatus Capital Partners. Before Innovatus, she was an Investments Associate at Roivant Sciences, and a Healthcare Associate at RA Capital Management. Dr. Hatami holds a B.A. in Neuroscience & Behavior from Columbia University, and an M.S. in Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Biology from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Raheleh enjoys exploring art museums, tennis, time with Rumi (her doodle), new travel adventures, and live music.