Rana Al-Hallaq, PHD is Vice President and Head of Operations at Pfizer Ventures and Vice President, Worldwide Business Development. Rana is responsible for identifying, evaluating, making and managing equity investments aligned with the future directions of Pfizer.  She currently has responsibility for Pfizer’s investments in Autifony Therapeutics, Biograph55, Enara Bio, Montis BioSciences, Nucleome Therapeutics, ReCode Therapeutics, RefleXion Medical, and Vivet Therapeutics.  Her prior investment responsibilities include Cortexyme, Jnana Therapeutics, Mitokinin, Triplet Therapeutics, and VectivBio. She is also responsible for managing investments in the Dementia Discovery Funds, the Health Enterprise Partners Fund, and the Wellington Venture Investments Fund. Rana serves as Vice Chair on the New York BIO Board of Directors.

Prior to her current role, Rana was a Transactionalist in Worldwide Business Development at Pfizer where she was responsible for negotiating and transacting licenses, acquisitions, and partnerships across therapeutic areas. Rana joined Pfizer in 2015 as an Early Candidate Clinical Lead where she advised early clinical programs in CNS to ensure alignment with business strategies. Prior to joining Pfizer, she held roles at Allergan (formerly Actavis, formerly Forest Laboratories), first in Clinical Development Psychiatry as scientific and operational lead on Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies, and later in Business Development where she assessed and executed on a number of acquisitions and licenses across therapeutic areas. She began her training as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health.

Rana received her BA in Biology from Hamilton College and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Georgetown University Medical Center.

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