Patrick Murray, PhD

Patrick Murray, PhD, is currently the Vice President, Worldwide Scientific Affairs, IDS, BD Life Sciences. He received his doctorate degree in microbiology at UCLA and postgraduate training in clinical microbiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He was director of the clinical microbiology laboratories at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and professor of medicine and pathology at Washington University from 1976 to 1999. In 1999, Murray joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and, in 2001, he accepted the position of senior scientist and chief of microbiology at the National Institutes of Health. In 2011, he retired from the NIH and accepted his current position.

Murray is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Infectious Disease Society of America. He is a former chairman of the American Board of Medical Microbiology, editor-in-chief of the ASM Manual of Clinical Microbiology, and editor of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Murray has authored more than 300 research articles and 20 books.