Pharmacologist vs principal scientist

Differences between pharmacologist and principal scientist duties and responsibilities

Pharmacologist example responsibilities.

• Develop strategies for the CMC teams to achieve global regulatory compliance.
• Stay inform about FDA regulations.
• Evaluate the safety, distribution, pharmacokinetics, and bioavailability of investigational new drugs and drug delivery systems.
• Develop, validate and implement robust methods for pharmacokinetic, immunogenicity (ADA) and immunodepletion ELISAs, and cell based-bioassays.
• Interpret the pharmacokinetic data of in-vivo bioavailability/bioequivalency studies.
• Participate in biomarker sub-team for biomarker strategy, vendor evaluation, assay development and validation (IHC and RNA).

Principal scientist example responsibilities.

• Manage pediatric dose development project, technology transfer project and alternate API supplier qualification project on budget and on schedule
• Provide development of and line support for assign immunoassay reagents, calibrators and controls.
• Transfer controls to manufacturing for product launch and include all require studies, testing and documentation under GMP guidelines.
• Maintain several lab documents for ISO certification.
• Understand drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics and design stable molecules.
• Image visualization and manipulation of background plates for animation and post-processing.
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