Ms. Soso Yang, Acting Senior Vice President of Research Administration and Innovation Management Business, leads HJF’s innovative research and development activities via the highest quality of award management, clinical trial, and technology transfer services.

Ms. Yang’s career includes more than 20 years of research administration experience in federal and private research programs. Ms. Yang has extensive knowledge in federal regulations and policies, federal agencies and private institutions policies, and federal and private assistance agreements terms and conditions. Ms. Yang began her first career at HJF at the Center for Prostate Disease Research program in 2003. After several years of serving the program, she joined the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). She has stayed with OSP since and became the Director of OSP in 2017.

Ms. Yang graduated from Johns Hopkins University with Master of Business Administration and earned her Bachelor of Science degree from University of Maryland in General Business & Management with a Concentration on International Business. She is also a Certified Research Administrator since 2008.