Steven Charlton PhD

Steven Charlton joined OMass Therapeutics as Vice President, Pharmacology in February 2020. Before that, he was co-founder and CSO at Excellerate Bioscience, a CRO providing specialist molecular pharmacology support to the pharmaceutical industry. Steven has over 20 years of drug discovery experience, with previous roles at both SmithKline Beecham and Novartis. At Novartis, he was Director of Molecular Pharmacology in Respiratory Diseases, leading an assay development and compound profiling team of over 30 scientists providing expert opinion and support for many GPCR and other membrane protein targets. He also served on development teams covering late clinical development through post-launch. In 2007, Steven was awarded Novartis Leading Scientist in recognition of his contribution to the field of quantitative pharmacology and to the Novartis pipeline. Steven is also Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery in the School of Life Sciences at Nottingham University, and a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society.