Sir David Ian Stuart FRS FMedSci (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 was educated initially in Helmshore, Lancashire, and then in North Devon, at Barnstaple Grammar School.
[3] He subsequently attended the University of Bristol and completed a PhD degree in the Biochemistry Department in 1979,[7] working on the structure of the enzyme pyruvate kinase in the laboratory of Hilary Muirhead.
Returning to Oxford in 1983 to work with Johnson he then in 1985 set up his own research group in the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, focused mainly on virus–receptor interactions and virus assembly.
He has also investigated the structure of the HIV reverse transcriptase protein, facilitating targeted drug design.