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Iva Hauptmannova joined Humanimal Trust in a freelance research support role in the autumn of 2022, embracing the opportunity to translate her experience and lifelong passion into supporting the work of the Trust. She graduated with BSc (Hons) from University of Westminster in 2002 and received a Master’s degree from King’s College London in 2003.
She has worked in various roles within human clinical research for almost 20 years and has supported the development of national research strategies. She has contributed to securing funding and the delivery of large scale national and international trials in orthopaedics and rare bone diseases. She has extensive experience in many areas of clinical research from supporting project design and grant applications, to project feasibility, commercial development to regulatory submissions and project delivery to strategy development and delivery.
She has developed successful partnershipswith academic institutions as well as commercial organisations. In recent years, she has been a member of the UK Genome 100,000 Oversight Board, the UK R&D Leadership Group, National Spinal Cord Injuries Research Group as well as several committees supporting the development of UK research infrastructure.
Until recently, she was the Head of Research & Innovation Centre at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, also holding an honorary senior research associate position at University College London.