Dr. Ling X. Shen is a Senior Licensing Officer in the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has worked as a technology transfer professional since 2007. Prior to joining the TTO, she spent eight years in the biotech industry in Cambridge, MA where she served in scientific and managerial positions with increasing levels of responsibility. In 2002, Ling joined Hybridon, Inc. as Director of Scientific Affairs, where she marketed the company’s technologies to universities and research institutes worldwide, and built multiple research collaborations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Ling earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Fudan University, M.S. in Chemistry from San Francisco State University, M.B.A. from the UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management, and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. She pursued postdoctoral research in structural biology, biochemistry and molecular biology at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.