# Director, Pharmacology

**Company**: Cellarity
**Location**: Somerville, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $248,000
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join Cellarity, a rapidly growing company, as a Director, Pharmacology, and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through a revolutionary approach to disease treatment.

As a Sr. Director, Pharmacology, you will connect biology, pharmacology, DMPK, and translational science across inflammation and hematology programs. You will report to the Sr. Director of Lab Science and partner closely with biology, chemistry, DMPK, toxicology, external CROs, and scientific leadership to drive programs from early discovery through candidate selection.

Responsibilities:

- Lead preclinical pharmacology strategy across multiple discovery programs, focusing on translating in vitro biology and functional assay data into meaningful in vivo outcomes.

- Drive PK/PD interpretation, exposure-response assessment, target coverage analysis, and translational biomarker strategy to inform program decisions.

- Integrate data across biology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, and DMPK to build clear scientific narratives and guide candidate advancement.

- Oversee outsourced pharmacology studies and manage external CRO relationships.

- Partner with internal scientific teams to define critical experiments, interpret data packages, and determine additional studies needed.

- Provide strategic input to cross-functional program discussions.

- Represent pharmacology at internal scientific and program meetings.

- Contribute to the development of broader translational approaches.

Requirements:

- PhD in biology, pharmacology, or a related scientific discipline.

- 10-15+ years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical drug discovery and development.

- Strong foundation in preclinical pharmacology with demonstrated experience translating biology into in vivo efficacy and PK/PD insight.

- Experience connecting in vitro findings to in-vivo outcomes.

- Exposure to DMPK and ability to partner with DMPK scientists.

- Proven track record of working across biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and external collaborators.

- Experience managing and interpreting outsourced pharmacology studies.

- Strong scientific judgment, data integration skills, and ability to build decision-enabling narratives.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have:

- Experience in hematology, particularly in combination with oncology.

- Experience supporting inflammation or immunology programs.

- Strong publication record.

- Experience working in smaller, cross-functional biotech environments.

- Demonstrated ability to grow into broader translational leadership.

Benefits:

- Healthcare coverage

- Annual incentive program

- Retirement benefits

- Broad range of other benefits

Salary: $180,000 - $248,000

## Skills

### Required
- preclinical pharmacology
- translational science
- biology
- pharmacology
- DMPK
- biotech
- drug discovery

### Nice to have
- hematology
- oncology
- inflammation
- immunology
- publication record
- broader translational leadership

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