Dasom (Christine) Yoo, PhD

Christine Yoo, PhD, joined Juvena Therapeutics in May 2025 as Senior Corporate Development Manager. Prior to joining Juvena, she was a Senior Associate at Propel Bio Partners, a life sciences venture capital firm. As the fund’s first hire, Christine played a key role in building internal operations and led due diligence efforts on private therapeutics and biotech companies from Seed through Series B stages.
Before her time in venture capital, Christine served as a Business Development Manager at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, where she supported strategic partnerships and commercialization initiatives.
Christine earned both her B.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, where her research focused on cardiac regeneration using stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband and their two golden retrievers.
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