David Barford is a British medical researcher and structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK.
Barford studied Biochemistry at the University of Bristol and then went on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Dame Louise Johnson.
Barford worked at the University of Dundee Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit with Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS and Tricia Cohen.
In 1999 he was appointed as Professor of Molecular Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
In 2013 Barford was appointed as a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.