Robert F. Murphy

Who is Robert F. Murphy?

Robert F. Murphy is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and director of the Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Image Informatics at Carnegie Mellon. He also directs the Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology.

Prior to arriving at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Murphy was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Charles R. Cantor at Columbia University from 1979 through 1983. Dr. Murphy earned an A. B. in Biochemistry from Columbia College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation shortly after joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1983. In 2005, NIH selected him as the first full-term chair of its new Biodata Management and Analysis Study Section. In 2006, he was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr.