Key Leadership Promotions
“At TScan, we believe it is of paramount importance to harness the strengths of our executive management team as we navigate our first clinical trials across hematologic malignancies and solid tumors,” said Brian Silver, J.D., Chief Financial Officer. “These key promotions highlight the strength of our in-house team as our clinical-stage oncology programs advance.”
Shrikanta Chattopadhyay, M.D., M.M.Sc., has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Medical, Translational Medicine. Dr. Chattopadhyay has over 15 years of experience in drug discovery and drug development in academic and industry settings. Prior to joining TScan, Shri was a board-certified hematologist-oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, physician-scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a clinical consultant for venture capital and biotechnology companies. In addition to clinical practice, he oversaw a broad spectrum of research efforts including preclinical drug discovery, first-in-human and later phase clinical trials. Shri began consulting for TScan in 2019 and was inspired to join full time in January 2021. He obtained his M.D. at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and his Master of Medical Sciences in clinical investigation at Harvard Medical School. Shri completed his residency training in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his clinical fellowship in hematology/oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Ann Hargraves has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Human Resources. Ann has over 20 years of experience building and leading teams. Prior to joining TScan, Ann founded Mindset Consulting, working to build the people strategy and capability for businesses in multiple industries. Before founding Mindset, Ann was the Head of Human Resources at Kettle Cuisine, through multiple acquisitions and divestitures. Before joining Kettle Cuisine, Ann led Human Resources for Keurig where she was instrumental in building a nationally recognized culture and high performing teams that contributed to Keurig’s hyper growth and success. Previously, Ann was the Vice President of Operations at an independent publishing company. Ann is an S.P.H.R. and holds a B.S. in Psychology from Salem State College.
Ray Lockard, M.B.A., has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Technical Operations and Quality. Ray brings to TScan over 25 years of experience in quality, validation, supply chain and manufacturing. Prior to joining TScan, Ray served as Executive Director, CMC, QA and External Quality at Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. Before joining Ultragenyx, he was the Quality Site Head for the AveXis (now Novartis Gene Therapies) gene therapy manufacturing facility in Raleigh N.C. Prior to that, Ray held positions of increasing responsibility for various biotechnology and life sciences companies including Biogen Inc., Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Precision NanoSystems, and Editas Medicine, Inc. Ray holds a B.S. in Biology from Hampden-Sydney College and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School.
About TScan Therapeutics, Inc.
TScan is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of T cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cell therapies (TCR-T) for the treatment of patients with cancer. The Company’s lead TCR-T therapy candidates, TSC-100 and TSC-101, are in development for the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies to eliminate residual disease and prevent relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. The Company is also developing multiplexed TCR-T therapy candidates for the treatment of various solid tumors. The Company has developed and continues to build its ImmunoBank, the Company’s repository of therapeutic TCRs that recognize diverse targets and are associated with multiple HLA types, to provide customized multiplexed TCR-T therapies for patients with a variety of solid tumors.
