Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology
Chief, Molecular Signaling Section
Education:
M.D., 1981, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY
A.B., 1975, Princeton University, Princeton NJ
Biography
Dr. Murphy obtained an A.B. from Princeton University in 1975 and an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1981. He trained in internal medicine at New York University from 1981 to 1985, serving as chief resident from 1984 to 1985, and in infectious diseases at NIAID from 1985 to 1988.
He began his research career as a medical staff fellow in the Bacterial Diseases Section of the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Investigation in 1986 and was promoted to senior investigator with tenure in the Laboratory of Host Defenses (LHD) in 1992. In 1998, he was promoted to the Senior Biomedical Research Service and named chief of the LHD Molecular Signaling Section.
In 2003, Dr. Murphy’s research group was reorganized as part of the new Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, where he served first as acting chief from 2003 to 2006 and then as chief from 2006 to the present. Dr. Murphy’s research interests include immunoregulation by chemokines and related chemoattractants, infectious disease pathogenesis, and inborn errors of immunity.
Awards
NIH Merit Award (1992); NIH Director's Award (1994, 1996); NIH Senior Biomedical Research Service (1998); American Society for Clinical Investigation (1992); Association of American Physicians (1997); Pillar of Immunology Award, Journal of Immunology(2009); the Henry Kunkel Society (2006); NIAID Merit Award (2009); NIAID Mentor of the Year Award (2010); Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (2013); Marie Bonazinga Award of the Society of Leukocyte Biology (2013)
Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Association of American Physicians
American Association of Immunologists
Society of Leukocyte Biology
The Henry Kunkel Society
American Academy of Microbiology
Editorial Boards
Journal of Leukocyte Biology
Viral Immunology
Journal of Innate Immunity