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David I. Stuart
David I. Stuart FRS, FMedSci (born 1953) is a leading structural biologist, best known for his contributions to viral crystallography, 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 an MRC Research Professor, joint Head of the Structural Biology Division at the University of Oxford, Director of Instruct and Life Sciences Director at Diamond Light Source.

Education
Stuart was born in 1953 in Lancashire. He was educated initially in Helmshore, Lancashire, and then in North Devon, at Barnstaple Grammar School. He studied Biophysics at Kings College London, graduating in 1974 after which he attended the University of Bristol and completed a PhD in the Biochemistry Department in 1979, working on the structure of pyruvate kinase in the laboratory of Hilary Muirhead

Career
Stuart moved to Oxford in 1979 and worked with Louise Johnson on the structure of glycogen phosphorylase before moving in 1981 to work at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing, with Liang Dong-Cai on insulin. 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 basic puzzles of virus assembly. In 1999 Stuart led the establishment of the Division of Structural Biology, in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Stuart is a pioneer of biological structural research and has advanced the field of structural biology by solving the atomic structures of unusually complex biological molecules and viruses. His success at solving the structure of foot-and-mouth virus has been carried forward in the search for better safer vaccines through the application of structural vaccinology. He contributed to the field of HIV research by investigating the structure of the reverse transcriptase protein, enabling targeted drug design. Stuart maintains a strong interest in developing methods for structural biology and also has a longstanding interest in how protein structures might throw light on evolution. Since 2008 Stuart has, as life science director, helped the development of the Diamond Light Source, the UKs synchrotron light source.

Honours and awards
Stuart has received a number of awards, accolades and honours for his work on viral structure, including:


 * FEBS Anniversary Prize (1990)
 * Fellow of the Royal Society (1996)
 * Descartes Prize (2002)
 * Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2006)
 * Gregory Aminoff prize with Stephen Harrison by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2006)
 * European Crystallographic Association Max Perutz Prize (2007)
 * Honorary Degree, University of Helsinki, Finland (2010)
 * Honorary Degree, University of Leeds (2011)
 * Honorary Degree, University of Bristol (2015)
 * Premio Città di Firenze for Molecular Sciences – Award from CERM (2016)