Zariel Johnson, PhD

Senior Manager, Business Development & Licensing
Zariel Johnson

Zariel Johnson, PhD, is a Senior Manager, Business Development & Licensing in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Office of Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (OEC). She previously served as a senior licensing manager. She joined MSK in 2022 and serves on OEC’s Life Sciences Partnering & Business Development team.

Previously, Zariel was a Program Manager, Technical at UPMC Enterprises, where she led the activities of UPMC as a partner in, and sponsor of, the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance. She earlier served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Nursing. 

Zariel received her PhD in Cell and Development Biology from Thomas Jefferson University, and her BS in Quantitative Biology from the University of Delaware.