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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. |
