Careers & Collaboration
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Help translate early renal, cardiovascular, and metabolic discoveries into rigorous development programs.
Open Opportunities
Build early science with translational discipline
SWL Therapeutics is seeking scientists and operators who are comfortable in an early-stage environment, where careful experimentation, grant readiness, and practical execution all matter.
Interested in joining SWL?
Please send a brief introduction, resume or CV, and the role you are interested in.
Contact UsResearch Team
Scientists
Responsibilities
- Design and conduct renal-related in vitro, ex vivo, and animal research experiments.
- Support studies in kidney injury, organ preservation, transplant biology, cardiovascular health, and metabolic disease.
- Develop protocols, maintain high-quality lab records, analyze experimental data, and prepare technical summaries.
- Contribute to NIH Phase I grant applications, manuscripts, posters, and scientific presentations.
- Collaborate with academic and clinical advisors to move early discoveries toward reproducible preclinical evidence.
Requirements
- PhD, MD, or equivalent research training in physiology, pharmacology, nephrology, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience with renal, cardiovascular, transplant, metabolic, or related biomedical research models.
- Ability to independently conduct experiments, troubleshoot methods, analyze results, and communicate findings clearly.
- Publication record in SCI-indexed journals.
- Strong attention to reproducibility, research integrity, and early-stage translational development.
Business Operations
Chief Operating Officer
Responsibilities
- Build and manage company operating systems for an early-stage biomedical venture.
- Coordinate grant timelines, budgets, vendor relationships, documentation, and milestone tracking.
- Support business planning, investor or partner materials, intellectual property coordination, and compliance workflows.
- Develop hiring, contracting, finance, and project-management processes as the company grows.
- Work closely with the CEO and scientific leadership to translate research goals into executable operating plans.
Requirements
- Experience in biotech, medical technology, academic commercialization, startup operations, or grant-funded research organizations.
- Strong project management, budgeting, vendor management, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Familiarity with NIH small-business grants, research administration, or regulated life-science development is preferred.
- Ability to operate in a lean, fast-moving environment with limited structure.
- High integrity, strong ownership, and comfort working across science, finance, legal, and business functions.
Clinical Translation
Chief Clinical Trial Officer
Responsibilities
- Develop clinical translation strategy for early-stage device and therapeutic programs.
- Advise on preclinical packages needed to support future first-in-human planning.
- Define target patient populations, clinical endpoints, safety considerations, and early trial concepts.
- Support regulatory planning, clinical protocol concepts, CRO evaluation, and investigator relationship development.
- Collaborate with scientific leadership to align experimental work with eventual clinical evidence needs.
Requirements
- MD, MD/PhD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent clinical development experience.
- Experience designing or leading clinical trials in renal, cardiovascular, metabolic, transplant, medical device, or related therapeutic areas.
- Working knowledge of FDA-regulated clinical development, GCP, protocol design, safety monitoring, and endpoint selection.
- Ability to translate early preclinical findings into practical clinical-development questions.
- Experience with early-stage biotech, investigator-initiated trials, or grant-funded clinical translation is preferred.