Hong Peng, Ph.D., MBA, is the Director of Business Development at Yale Ventures.  She has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property management and business development. She has a robust life science background, and extensive expertise in negotiating intellectual property-related contracts such as patent licenses, options and dispute settlement, sponsored research agreements, and corporate alliances.

Hong joined Yale University in 2006 and has been managing a large portfolio of technologies in life sciences.  She has been instrumental in establishing various pharmaceutical alliances and new ventures based on Yale innovations.

Prior to her current position, Hong was Director of Patents and Licensing at Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of New York Blood Center, where she led an operation with an annual royalty income of $60 million.  Hong has also worked as a Licensing Associate at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Hong holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Cornell University, an MBA from Columbia University, and a BS in Biology from Peking University in China.