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Simon Tavaré is a Professor of Cancer Research (Bioinformatics) at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Oncology and a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). He is also the former Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (2013–2018), a Senior Group Leader there, and a Professorial Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. His research focuses on cancer genomics, evolutionary approaches to cancer, and statistical bioinformatics for sequencing data. He integrates methods from computational biology, population genetics, and stochastic computation to address molecular biology questions.
His career includes roles at the University of Southern California (1999–2006) and the University of Utah (1984–1989). He has been recognized with prestigious awards, including Fellowship of the Royal Society (2011) and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as a Foreign Associate (2018). His work spans diverse areas such as evolutionary biology, palaeontology, and probabilistic combinatorics.
- Education: Early career details not explicitly listed, but academic roles began in 1978 as an instructor at the University of Utah.
Research interests include applying statistical methods to cancer heterogeneity, mutational signatures analysis, and evolutionary dynamics in tumors. His publications highlight contributions to genomic data analysis tools like BayesPeak and foundational work in combinatorial probability.
- Awards: FMedSci (2009), FRS (2011), EMBO Membership (2015), NAS Foreign Associate (2018).
He has led initiatives at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and contributed to international collaborations, including the OCCAMS Consortium for esophageal cancer research. His advisory roles include serving as President of the London Mathematical Society (2015–2017).
