Director, clinical pharmacology vs doctoral fellow

The differences between directors, clinical pharmacology and doctoral fellows can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a director, clinical pharmacology and a doctoral fellow. Additionally, a director, clinical pharmacology has an average salary of $120,597, which is higher than the $53,366 average annual salary of a doctoral fellow.

The top three skills for a director, clinical pharmacology include drug development, clinical development and pharmacokinetics. The most important skills for a doctoral fellow are patients, cell culture, and data analysis.

Director, clinical pharmacology vs doctoral fellow overview

	Director, Clinical Pharmacology	Doctoral Fellow
Yearly salary	$120,597	$53,366
Hourly rate	$57.98	$25.66
Growth rate	17%	17%
Number of jobs	68,331	22,661
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 50%	Doctoral Degree, 46%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	4	4

Director, clinical pharmacology vs doctoral fellow salary

Directors, clinical pharmacology and doctoral fellows have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Director, Clinical Pharmacology	Doctoral Fellow
Average salary	$120,597	$53,366
Salary range	Between $67,000 And $215,000	Between $39,000 And $72,000
Highest paying City	Anchorage, AK	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Alaska	Hawaii
Best paying company	Neurocrine Biosciences	IBM
Best paying industry	-	Pharmaceutical

Differences between director, clinical pharmacology and doctoral fellow education

There are a few differences between a director, clinical pharmacology and a doctoral fellow in terms of educational background:

	Director, Clinical Pharmacology	Doctoral Fellow
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 50%	Doctoral Degree, 46%
Most common major	Biology	Chemistry
Most common college	Duke University	Duke University

Director, clinical pharmacology vs doctoral fellow demographics

Here are the differences between directors, clinical pharmacology' and doctoral fellows' demographics:

	Director, Clinical Pharmacology	Doctoral Fellow
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 81.7% Female, 18.3%	Male, 55.3% Female, 44.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.4% Unknown, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 9.7% Asian, 26.3% White, 53.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%	Black or African American, 6.1% Unknown, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 9.3% Asian, 32.9% White, 47.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between director, clinical pharmacology and doctoral fellow duties and responsibilities

Director, clinical pharmacology example responsibilities.

Manage CRO relationships for CNS studies.
Manage clinical monitors in successful completion of large international hypertension study.
Develop a strategic ADME plan for each preclinical and clinical project.
Maintain the Neuroscience web site.
Supply primary cultures to CNS section.
Authore regulatory documents and responses to FDA.

Doctoral fellow example responsibilities.

Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
Attend courses in drug discovery, python programming, and next-generation sequencing analyses.
Coordinate the validation of data aquisition algorithms (C++, python) for all real and simulate data.
Conduct custom synthesis of organic molecules, key intermediates and building blocks for medicinal chemistry applications.
Design PCL/PLCL drug delivery system for DC immunotherapy.
Succeed in using CRISPR to genetically correct diseas iPSCs.

Director, clinical pharmacology vs doctoral fellow skills

Common director, clinical pharmacology skills

Drug Development, 14%
Clinical Development, 13%
Pharmacokinetics, 13%
PK/PD, 10%
Data Analysis, 7%
NDA, 6%

Common doctoral fellow skills

Patients, 8%
Cell Culture, 6%
Data Analysis, 5%
Research Projects, 5%
Cell Biology, 5%
Immunology, 5%

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