Yvonne Yamanaka, Ph.D., is a Principal at venBio with a background in biological engineering and life science company creation. Prior to joining venBio, Yvonne was a member of the venture creation team at Flagship Pioneering, where she invented technologies and helped launch life science companies. Yvonne began her research career at EMD/Merck Serono leading the development of an immunotherapy technology that she and her teammates had designed as graduate students.
Yvonne received her Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from MIT, where she was a Siebel Scholar, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and a winner of the Merck Serono Innovation Cup. She received her B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University, where she was an Angier B. Duke and Goldwater Scholar.
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