Andrew W. Murray PhD

Andrew Murray received his BA from Cambridge and his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he worked with Jack Szostak and constructed artificial chromosomes. In his postdoctoral work, with Mark Kirschner at UCSF, he showed that cyclin synthesis and destruction regulates the cell division cycle. From 1989 to 2000, Murray was on the faculty of the Physiology Department at UCSF. Since joining Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology department in 2000, he has directed the Bauer Fellows Program and the FAS Center for Systems Biology.

He was made a Professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Insitute in 2014 to support his work in developing a curriculum that would present the natural sciences as an integrated whole to college freshman and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.