Won Yong Lee, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Won Yong joined the VPR office to spearhead the campuswide SBIR/STTR and commercialization intended funding support. He has over 19 years of drug development experiences in pharmaceutical companies. Prior to join the OVPR, he was the Vice President of Research and led the multiple drug development programs at GlycoMira Therapeutics with funding supports from the NIH (SBIR Phase I, II and Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program). He has been serving as a reviewer for in NIH study panels (CDDT, Cancer Drug Development and Therapeutics; MSOS, Musculoskeletal, Orthopedic, Oral, Dermatology and Rheumatology). He holds 5 issued patents (multiple pending applications) and numerous high impact publications. Won Yong received his Ph.D. in Molecular Neuroscience from Mayo Clinic and M.S./D.V.M. from Konkuk University (Seoul, Korea). He is a technophile (likes to tinker with Arduino) and curious to learn about your innovative scientific discoveries and engineering developments.