Christy Shaffer

Biography

 Dr. Shaffer is a entrepreneur, biotech executive, and venture investor with over 25 years of experience in the life science industry. She joined Hatteras Venture Partners in 2011 as Managing Director of Hatteras Discovery and became a General Partner in 2016. In addition to serving as a Director for Spyryx, Dr. Shaffer sits on five other Hatteras portfolio company boards and chairs four of them: Artizan Biosciences (Chair), Clearside Biomedical (Chair), GrayBug Vision (Chair), Trefoil Therapeutics (Chair), and G1 Therapeutics. She is a former member of the board of trustees of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) and past board chair of Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc., the nonprofit drug development affiliate of CFF. She received the Breath of Life Award from CFF in 2009. Following her career at Burroughs Wellcome, she joined Inspire Pharmaceuticals as the first full-time employee, ultimately becoming President and CEO. She was responsible for raising over $300 million for the company, including taking the company public in 2000, and growing annual revenues to over $100 million. Dr. Shaffer earned her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Tennessee and did post-doctoral training at Chicago Medical School and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Research Interest

 Medical