Jaehyung Yoon

Biography

Mr. Yoon joined Cognate in 2014 as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, but has been an advisor to the Company since 2008 when he joined a venture capital firm that had invested in Cognate. In addition to being involved in the daily management of the Company as it pertains to the overall growth of our business, he also oversees intellectual property management and relationships with academic and industry R&D partners and affiliates. Mr. Yoon has over 10 years of biotechnology industry experience ranging from venture capital to bench research. Prior to joining Cognate, Mr. Yoon served as Senior Associate at a venture capital firm where he focused on seed to early stage regenerative medicine, immune technologies and cell therapies. At the venture capital firm, Mr. Yoon was involved with portfolio management, providing operational support to portfolio companies and to fund transactions. Until 2008, Mr. Yoon also served as a biomedical engineer at TissueGene, Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company developing cellular therapies, where he was involved in new product development. Mr. Yoon was also a lab member at the Johns Hopkins Neuroengineering & Biomedical Instrumentation Lab until 2005. Mr. Yoon holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, an M.S. in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. 

Research Interest

Biomedical Engineering