David Gavaghan

{{Short description|British computing professor}}

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| birth_name = David J. Gavaghan

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|nationality = British

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|work_institutions = University of Oxford

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• Durham University (BSc)
• University of Oxford (MSc, DPhil)}}

|doctoral_advisor = John Sidney Rollett

| thesis_title = Parallel numerical algorithms for the solution of diffusion problems.

| thesis_url = http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph015986323

| thesis_year = 1992

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|website = {{URL|www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/david.gavaghan}}

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David J. Gavaghan (born 10 February 1966) is Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also the director of the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, Principal Investigator of the Integrative Biology project{{cite web | title=Integrative Biology: Project Board | url=http://www.integrativebiology.ac.uk/board.html | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429125004/http://www.integrativebiology.ac.uk/board.html | archivedate=2007-04-29 }} and Research Fellow in Mathematics at New College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=New College: Fellows |url=http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/Teaching_and_Research/Staff_Profile_Page.php?staffId=20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926164810/http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/Teaching_and_Research/Staff_Profile_Page.php?staffId=20 |archivedate=September 26, 2006 }}{{GoogleScholar|riGX3YsAAAAJ}}{{cite journal|last1=Smallbone|first1=Kieran|last2=Gavaghan|first2=David J.|last3=Gatenby|first3=Robert A.|last4=Maini|first4=Philip K.|title=The role of acidity in solid tumour growth and invasion|journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology|volume=235|issue=4|year=2005|pages=476–484|issn=0022-5193|doi=10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.02.001|pmid=15935166|bibcode=2005JThBi.235..476S |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b256a057-d595-4014-b056-b61f126664df}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0197-2456(95)00134-4|pmid=8721797|title=Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?|journal=Controlled Clinical Trials|volume=17|issue=1|pages=1–12|year=1996|last1=Jadad|first1=Alejandro R.|last2=Moore|first2=R.Andrew|last3=Carroll|first3=Dawn|last4=Jenkinson|first4=Crispin|last5=Reynolds|first5=D.John M.|last6=Gavaghan|first6=David J.|last7=McQuay|first7=Henry J.}}