David Stuart (structural biologist)
Sir David Stuart | |
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| Born | David Ian Stuart 8 December 1953 |
| Alma mater | University of London (BSc) University of Oxford (MA) University of Bristol (PhD) |
| Awards | Descartes Prize Gregori Aminoff Prize Knight Bachelor |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Structural Biology Virology Crystallography Synchrotron radiation |
| Institutions | Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics University of Oxford Diamond Light Source |
| Thesis | X-ray studies on pyruvate kinase (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hilary Muirhead |
| Doctoral students | Susan Lea |
| Website | www |
Sir David Ian Stuart (born 8 December 1953) is a Medical Research Council Professor of Structural Biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford where he is also a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. He is best known for his contributions to the X-ray crystallography of viruses, in particular for determining the structures of foot-and-mouth disease virus, bluetongue virus and the membrane-containing phages PRD1 (the first structure of an enveloped virus) and PM2. He is also director of Instruct and Life Sciences Director at Diamond Light Source.