Yale University

Yale University appears in elsewhere's corpus primarily as a research origin for scientific founders and technical talent in Chinese VC-backed startups. Per a 2020 FreeS Fund piece, Professor Fan Rong of Yale developed the core single-cell analysis platform that became the foundation of Singleron Biotechnologies, a FreeS portfolio company focused on high-throughput sequencing . Yale biologist Frank Slack, who first discovered microRNA in humans in 2001, later served as scientific advisor for MiRXES, a cancer early-detection company covered by Gaorong Ventures in 2021 . The university also appears as a training ground for talent: Galaxy Pharma Tech's core team included Yale graduates among its ranks of MIT, Tsinghua and Peking University alumni, per a 2020 5Y Capital article , and Monolith Capital's 2026 profile of founder Lu Ziheng noted he went to Yale to learn experimental techniques before returning to Hong Kong to build his lab . The Yale-China Health Collaborative (YHCC) was also listed as a supporting organization for FreeS Fund's 2020 biomedical summit .