Eterna Therapeutics Inc. announced the appointment of Megan Yung as Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel. Ms. Yung will work with Eterna's senior leadership and the Board of Directors to develop and advance the Company's corporate strategy. Ms. Yung will also oversee the company's legal activities, including licensing and intellectual property matters.

Ms. Yung holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and joins Eterna from SQZ Biotechnologies, where she served as Deputy General Counsel and Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, and helped oversee matters of intellectual property, regulatory compliance, public company reporting, business development activities and negotiations, and government affairs. Prior to SQZ, Ms. Yung held in-house counsel positions where she served as a key member of the deal teams involving strategic bet-the-company, venture capital, and private equity financing deals, and as chief counsel on all litigation, including intellectual property, employment matters, and class action law suits. These successful activities built on the expertise she cultivated as an intellectual property attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovksy and Popeo, and Foley & Lardner, where she represented and advised biotech and pharmaceutical companies in patent litigation, prosecution, and IP strategy.