David Lilley

David Malcolm James Lilley FRS is a British biochemist. He is Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Dundee.
Lilley is an expert in the structure and folding of nucleic acids, including specialised branched structures of DNA. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002.
He graduated from Durham University in 1969 with a first-class degree in Chemistry, and finished his PhD in Physical Chemistry at the same institution in 1972. He was the Colworth Medal winner in 1982, and from 1996 to 2001 served as Editor of Gene.