Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization RA Capital Management
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
Investor Type Investment Partner
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Derek DiRocco is a Partner on the Investment Team at RA Capital Management. Derek works on both public and private investments and serves as a Board Director for 89Bio, Ltd. Previously, Derek covered solid tumor oncology landscapes. Derek holds a BA in Biology from Holy Cross College and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Washington. He
conducted his postdoctoral research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he researched the role of the Wnt signaling pathway in mouse models of kidney disease, and was part of a team that discovered a stem cell subtype responsible for solid organ fibrosis.