Bhavini Ladwa

Associate Director of Data Management at Hammersmith Medicines Research Ltd

Bhavini (Vin) has over 20 years of data management experience at HMR. After working on the wards for a year, she joined the Data Management team in 1999. We promoted her to Team Leader in 2004, giving her managerial responsibility for a team of Data Managers. We further promoted her to Head of Data Management in 2016, and to Associate Director of Data Management in 2021. She runs the data group, and coordinates the data management for all trials. She’s used her expertise and long experience to optimise all aspects of the data management processes – including design and build of CRF/eCRF, database and CDASH-compliant datasets; coding; validation specifications; edit check programming; and query management – with a focus on data quality and efficiency, to ensure that all clients’ requirement are met.

Vin gained a BSc in Biochemistry in 1997 from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. Before starting at HMR, she spent a year working as a Clinical Data Associate for another Phase 1 CRO. Vin’s a member of the Association of Clinical Data Managers (ACDM), and is a long-distance tutor for the data management module of the Masters in Clinical Trials at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.