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 the Technology Development Manager, Monique created the Children's Hospital Technology Development Fund (TDF), which launched in March of 2009. For the launch, she designed and implemented the evaluation processes for promising hospital technologies, formed an advisory board of industry leaders, and established collaborations with technology development partners and CROs. She continues to oversee the management of funded projects and external collaborations, and the operation of each year’s funding cycle. In its first two years, Children’s awarded $2.55M to support 22 hospital innovations.
In her previous role as Senior Licensing Manager, Monique handled technologies in the therapeutic, diagnostic, and medical device arenas, closed significant deals in licensing and sponsored research, and established creative collaborations with industry partners.
Prior to Children's, 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. In the laboratory of Dr. Brian Schaffhausen, her doctoral thesis focused on the regulation of the PI3-Kinase by Polyomavirus middle T antigen and the proto-oncogene c-src. Monique has authored and co-authored 9 peer reviewed publications. She also holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Biology from the University of Massachusetts.