Simon Tavaré (born 1952)[4] is a British researcher who is the founding Director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics at Columbia University.[5] Prior to joining Columbia, he was Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Professor of Cancer Research at the Department of Oncology and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.[6]
Simon Tavaré | |
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| Born | 13 May 1952[4] |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Oundle School[4] |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Some results for Markow processes with application to genetic models. |
| Doctoral students | Christina Curtis[3] |
| Other notable students | Rebecca Doerge[citation needed] Tandy Warnow (postdoc)[citation needed] |
| Website | www |
Education
editTavaré was educated at Oundle School[4] and the University of Sheffield where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1974, a Master of Science degree in 1975, and a PhD in 1979.[4][7][3]
Research and career
editTavaré is a computational biologist and statistician, with his research focusing on three main areas: statistical methods for the analysis of next‑generation sequencing data, evolutionary approaches to cancer and methods for the analysis of genomics data.[8]
Tavaré's research has been funded by Cancer Research UK, the Royal Society,[9][1] the European Union, Horizon 2020, the Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[10] the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[11] His former students include Christina Curtis.[3][12]
Awards and honours
editTavaré was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011[9] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009.[13] He held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2003 to 2009.[1] In 2018, Tavare was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[14] and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.[5][15] In 2020 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, the College of which he had been a Fellow while a professor at Cambridge between 2004 and 2019. In the June 2023 Graduation Ceremonies at University of St Andrews, Tavaré was awarded Doctor of Science (DSc),[16] in recognition of his major contribution to computational biology, statistics, and the study of cancer.
References
edit- ^ a b c Anon (2003). "Professor Simon Tavare FMedSci Research Fellow". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ Simon Tavaré publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c Simon Tavaré at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d e Anon (2017). "Tavaré, Prof. Simon". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.10000189. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b "Simon Tavare, Columbia University". nasonline.org.
- ^ Tavaré, Simon (2017). "Professor Simon Tavaré FRS, FMedSci". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016.
- ^ Tavare, Simon (1979). Some results for Markow processes with application to genetic models. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Sheffield. OCLC 500576479. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.474608.
- ^ "Tavaré Group". cruk.cam.ac.uk. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ a b Anon (2011). "Professor Simon Tavaré FMedSci FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Anon (2016). "UK Government research grants awarded to Simon Tavare". rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016.
- ^ Tavaré, Simon (2017). "Funding in the Tavare laboratory". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ Curtis, Christina (2007). Analysis of high-density oligonucleotide gene expression data for dissecting aging pathways (PhD thesis). University of Southern California. ISBN 978-0-549-83622-3. ProQuest 304825898.
- ^ Anon (2009). "Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci". acmedsci.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ 2018 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 3 November 2017
- ^ "News From the National Academy of Sciences".
- ^ "Honorary graduates". www.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2023.