Dr. Alexander Murphy began teaching biochemistry and physiology at the dental school in 1972. He was instrumental in instituting the calcium transport research laboratory, after receiving a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.
He has been a principal investigator on research grants from NIH for more than two decades and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on subjects such as the structure of cytochromes, nucleotide analog synthesis, chemical modification of proteins and the structure and mechanism of ion pumping by the ATPases of plasmalemma and sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes. Murphy has also been active in the development of computer-based teaching materials and methods, allowing both classroom and Internet-based presentations of animated molecular structures and processes.
Murphy is a manuscript reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Murphy received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Yale University and performed his postdoctoral work in biophysical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, with the support of an American Heart Association fellowship.
