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Simon Tavaré
Born (1952-05-13) 13 May 1952 (age 72)[5]
NationalityBritish
EducationOundle School[5]
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSome results for Markow processes with application to genetic models.
Notable studentsRebecca Doerge
Websitedamtp.cam.ac.uk/user/st321/

Simon Tavaré (born 1952),[5] is 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]

Education

Tavaré was educated at Oundle School[5] 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.[5][7]

Research

His research has been funded by Cancer Research UK, the Royal Society,[1][3] the European Union, Horizon 2020, the Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[8] the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[9]

Awards and honours

Tavare was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011[1] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009.[2] He held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2003 to 2009.[3] He was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c Anon (2011). "Professor Simon Tavaré FMedSci FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) 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}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b Anon (2009). "Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci". acmedsci.ac.uk.
  3. ^ a b c Anon (2003). "Professor Simon Tavare FMedSci Research Fellow". royalsociety.org.
  4. ^ Simon Tavaré publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ a b c d e TAVARÉ. "TAVARÉ, Prof. Simon". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  6. ^ Tavaré, Simon (2017). "Professor Simon Tavaré FRS, FMedSci". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Tavare, Simon (1979). Some results for Markow processes with application to genetic models. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Sheffield. OCLC 500576479.
  8. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Tavaré, Simon (2017). "Funding in the Tavare laboratory". University of Cambridge.
  10. ^ 2018 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 3 November 2017


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