Professor David James Kerr CBE (born 1956, Glasgow) is a British Cancer Researcher. His primary area of research is treatment and management of colorectal cancer. He served as Chief Research Advisor, at Sidra Medical and Research Center in Doha, Qatar. Kerr is no longer the Director of Qatar's Biomedical Research Institute; his role as a Member of the Supreme Council of Health in Qatar has been allocated to Lord Darzi.Kerr is Professor of Cancer Medicine and Former Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also President-Elect for European Society for Medical Oncology (2009).