After obtaining a PhD in Cell Physiology from the University of Cambridge with Dr. Francisco V. Sepúlveda, David worked with Prof. Michael J. Welsh at the University of Iowa in the period immediately following the demonstration that CFTR forms an epithelial chloride channel. Returning to the UK, he was a BBSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh before becoming a Lecturer at the University of Bristol. David shared the 2010 ECFS Award for his leadership of the EuroCareCF project. Working with the European CF Society, EuroCareCF developed a European CF Patient Registry, helped establish a European Clinical Trials Network, trained clinicians, healthcare professionals and scientists, distributed resources and developed consensus guidelines for CF research and patient care

Scott-Ward, TS, Cai, Z, Dawson, ES, Doherty, A, Da Paula, AC, Davidson, H, Porteous, DJ, Wainwright, BJ, Amaral, MD, Sheppard, DN & Boyd, AC, 2007, ‘Chimeric constructs endow the human CFTR Cl(-)channel with the gating behavior of murine CFTR’. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america, vol 104., pp. 16365-16370