David Barford

David Barford FRS FMedSci
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Bristol University of Oxford
Awards	EMBO Member (2003) Colworth Medal (1998) [1]
Scientific career
Institutions	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Institute of Cancer Research University of Oxford Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory University of Dundee
Thesis	Crystallographic studies on glycogen phosphorylase b  (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Louise Johnson
Doctoral students	Lori Passmore [2]
Website	www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/david-barford/

David Barford is a British medical researcher and structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK.

Education

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.

Career and research

Barford worked at the University of Dundee Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit with Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS and Tricia Cohen. He was a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA (1991 to 1994). From 1994 he was University Lecturer at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. 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. He was Joint Head of the Division of Structural Studies from Dec 2015 to Oct 2024 ^[3] .

He was a member of the Faculty of 1000 from 2002 to 2004.

Awards

• 2017 Honorary DSc University of Bristol
• 2006 Fellow of the Royal Society
• 2006 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• 2003 Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
• 1998 Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society ^[1]

References

1. Barford, D (1999). "Colworth Medal Lecture. Structural studies of reversible protein phosphorylation and protein phosphatases". Biochemical Society Transactions. 27 (6): 751–66. doi:10.1042/bst0270751. PMID   10830099.
2. Passmore, Lori Anne (2003). Structural and functional studies of the anaphase promoting complex (APC). london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University Of London. OCLC   500247667. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.406167.
3. Brackley, Paul (2024-11-14). "Lori Passmore joins Sjors Scheres in heading up Structural Studies Division at LMB". Cambridge Independent. Archived from the original on 2025-07-12. Retrieved 2025-09-22.