Monique Yoakim-Turk, Ph.D.
Technology Development Manager
monique.yoakim@childrens.harvard.edu
(617) 919-3027
Monique joined TIDO of Children's Hospital Boston in 2000. As Technology Development Manager, Monique oversees the Children's Hospital Technology Development Fund, and manages the collaborations with technology development partners and CROs. Since joining Children's Hospital, she has handled technologies in the therapeutic, diagnostic, and medical device arenas and closed significant deals in licensing and sponsored research. In March of 2005, she became Director of the Pediatric Product Development Initiative (PPDI), an initiative launched by the hospital to address pediatric clinical needs that are not met by traditional technology transfer and marketing approaches. In this position, she led the formation of an angel advisory board, implemented novel processes for the evaluation of medical device technologies, and collaborated with Children’s Hospital investigators in applying for and receiving SBIR and MTTC grants.
Prior to Children's Hospital, Dr. Yoakim-Turk was a post-doctoral fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. Benjamin Neel, where she studied the regulation of cytokine receptors by the tyrosine phosphatase SHP1. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, where her doctoral thesis focused on the regulation of the PI3-Kinase by Polyomavirus middle T antigen and the proto-oncogene c-src, in the laboratory of Dr. Brian Schaffhausen. Monique has authored and co-authored several peer reviewed papers. She also holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Biology from the University of Massachusetts.