Selvan Bavan

Former academia researcher turned Study Director with more than 4 years pharmaceutical industry experience at contract research organizations (CROs) and more than 6 years postdoctoral experience in academia.

• Former academia researcher turned Study Director with more than 4 years industry experience at contract research organizations (CROs) and more than 6 years postdoctoral experience in academia.
• Experience with addressing needs of pharmaceutical clients based in Asia, Europe, and USA. Working currently with same clients on successive studies, demonstrating ability to maintain client relationship.
• Experience in verbal presentation of scientific information with PowerPoint, poster, and teleconference.
• Organized meetings in academia (journal club) and industry (initiatives & validation work), leading to increased learning opportunities for peers and myself.

Productivity, quality of work, leadership, teamwork, and responsiveness to feedback demonstrated by:

• Study plan (protocol) development, execution, and report writing for more than 12 cardiovascular safety studies on new medicines, helping to drive departmental and company revenue.
• First author publications (Bavan et al., 2009; Bavan et al., 2011; Bavan et al., 2012; Bavan et al., 2014; Bavan et al., 2019) and non-first author publications (Price et al., 2014; Li et al., 2015; Haidar et al., 2020).

Ph.D. Cell Physiology & Pharmacology: University of Leicester, UK.

2006 – 2010 (final thesis submission: December 2010, degree awarded: January 2011).
‘P2X receptor function in Lymnaea stagnalis and other lower organisms’.
Supervisors: Dr. Steve Ennion and Dr. Volko Straub.
 

M.Sc. Neuroscience: University College London, UK.

2005 – 2006

B.Sc. Biochemistry: Imperial College London, UK. 2:1 honours.

2001 – 2004