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Robert
K. Murray, MD, PhD
 Dr.
Murray received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1956. He interned at Victoria Hospital, London,
and then completed a further year of post-graduate training
at the University of Michigan, USA, where he was awarded an
MS degree in Physiology in 1958. This was followed by three
more years of graduate research in Biochemistry at the University
of Toronto, Canada, culminating in him being awarded a PhD degree
in 1961.
Upon completion of his PhD, he received an appointment as Assistant
Professor at the University of Toronto. In 1965 he was appointed
Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oncology and Pathology, at the
University of Wisconsin returning to the University of Toronto
in 1968 as Associate Professor, Biochemistry, where he was appointed
Professor in 1973.
Dr. Murray had a distinguished teaching and research career
at the University during which he received Faculty and Alumni
awards for teaching, trained more than a dozen graduate students,
published over fifty scientific peer-reviewed papers, authored
multiple textbook articles and is one of authors of Harper's
Biochemistry, the 27th edition of which has just been published
in 2006.
Since 1998, Dr. Murray has served as Professor (Emeritus) at
the University of Toronto and recently as a consultant in carbohydrate
biology and biochemistry to the nutritional supplement industry. |
