Shattuck Labs Leadership

Taylor is a co-founder of Shattuck Labs and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Before his appointment as CEO in January 2020, Taylor served as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer. Taylor is the lead inventor of Shattuck’s ARC technology platform. Prior to Shattuck, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of Heat Biologics, Inc. where he was a co-inventor of significant elements of Heat’s ImPACT and ComPACT technology platforms. Taylor was also the co-inventor of Pelican Therapeutics ‘s TNFRSF25 agonist technology where he served as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. Taylor has numerous publications in the field of tumor immunology and immunotherapy, spanning the subjects of cancer vaccines, therapeutic proteins and antibodies, adenosinergic and IDO mediated immunosuppression and regulatory T cell biology. In 2008, he received the best overall research award at the National Student Research Forum, and in 2011 he was nominated as a Future Leader in Cancer Research by the American Association for Cancer Research. Taylor received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Sheila and David Fuente Program in Cancer Biology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his B.A. in Biology from Bucknell University.

Dr. Shukla joins Redpin with a strong reputation as a leader and innovator in the biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing space. In his most recent roles, he was responsible for the manufacturing of gene modified cell therapy products at CRISPR Therapeutics and biologics process development for a vast pipeline of diverse biologics at Shire Inc (now Takeda).

Prior to these roles, Dr. Shukla spent a number of years setting up a highly successful process development and manufacturing business line at KBI Biopharma, a leading CDMO. He also built a late-stage Manufacturing Sciences & Technology team at Bristol-Myers Squibb to commercialize the Company’s first biologics molecules and at Amgen Inc. formulated their platform approach to mAb and Fc fusion protein process development.

Throughout his career Dr. Shukla has been involved in >75 INDs and in the commercialization of Orencia®, Yervoy®, Nulojix® and Xgeva® amongst other therapeutics. Dr. Shukla received his doctorate in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has over 40 published papers in the process development and manufacturing areas and is well known as a thought leader and innovator in the industry.

Taylor is a co-founder of Shattuck Labs and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Before his appointment as CEO in January 2020, Taylor served as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer. Taylor is the lead inventor of Shattuck’s ARC technology platform. Prior to Shattuck, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of Heat Biologics, Inc. where he was a co-inventor of significant elements of Heat’s ImPACT and ComPACT technology platforms. Taylor was also the co-inventor of Pelican Therapeutics ‘s TNFRSF25 agonist technology where he served as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. Taylor has numerous publications in the field of tumor immunology and immunotherapy, spanning the subjects of cancer vaccines, therapeutic proteins and antibodies, adenosinergic and IDO mediated immunosuppression and regulatory T cell biology. In 2008, he received the best overall research award at the National Student Research Forum, and in 2011 he was nominated as a Future Leader in Cancer Research by the American Association for Cancer Research. Taylor received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Sheila and David Fuente Program in Cancer Biology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his B.A. in Biology from Bucknell University.

Taylor is a co-founder of Shattuck Labs and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Before his appointment as CEO in January 2020, Taylor served as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer. Taylor is the lead inventor of Shattuck’s ARC technology platform. Prior to Shattuck, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of Heat Biologics, Inc. where he was a co-inventor of significant elements of Heat’s ImPACT and ComPACT technology platforms. Taylor was also the co-inventor of Pelican Therapeutics ‘s TNFRSF25 agonist technology where he served as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. Taylor has numerous publications in the field of tumor immunology and immunotherapy, spanning the subjects of cancer vaccines, therapeutic proteins and antibodies, adenosinergic and IDO mediated immunosuppression and regulatory T cell biology. In 2008, he received the best overall research award at the National Student Research Forum, and in 2011 he was nominated as a Future Leader in Cancer Research by the American Association for Cancer Research. Taylor received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Sheila and David Fuente Program in Cancer Biology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his B.A. in Biology from Bucknell University.