Rafaèle Tordjman is the Founder & Chairwoman of WITH (Women Innovating Together in Healthcare) association. From 2001 to February 2017, she was Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners (France). Prior to this, she worked as a research scientist at the Institut National de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) in Cochin Hospital, Paris. Before joining INSERM, she was a medical doctor specializing in clinical haematology and internal medicine. She obtained her PhD, with high honours, in haematopoiesis and angiogenesis from the University Paris VII followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in immunology. Rafaèle obtained her medical degree and her specialisation in Haematology and Internal Medicine as a five-year fellow in Paris University Hospitals. She also participated in the “Young Manager Program” at INSEAD (France, in 2002).  While at Sofinnova, Rafaèle has invested in and is on the board of Ascendis, DBV technologies, Flexion Therapeutics, Nucana Biomed, MedDay and ObsEva. She was also on the board of Corevalve, Endoart before it was successfully sold to Allergan Inc, Preglem before it was successfully sold to Gedeon Richter and HBI Ltd before it was acquired by Meda.

 haematopoiesis and angiogenesis  clinical haematology and internal medicine