Robert Murphy

Biography

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. He is also Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning, and Director (with Jelena Kovacevic) of the Center for Biomedical Image Informatics at Carnegie Mellon. He also directs (with Ivet Bahar) the joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology. Prior to arriving at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Murphy was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Charles R. Cantor at Columbia University from 1979 through 1983. Dr. Murphy earned an AB 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 his new Biodata Management and Analysis Study Section. In 2006, he was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 2008. Dr. Murphy has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Arthritis Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has co-edited two books and two special journal articles on "Cell and Molecular Imaging," and published over 150 research papers. He is President-elect of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry.

Research Interest

Dr. Murphy's career has centered on combining fluorescence-based cell measurement methods with quantitative and computational methods. His current research focuses on Automated interpretation of fluorescence microscope images