Kenneth M. Murphy MD, PhD

Kenneth M. Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of pathology and immunology, co-head of the Division of Immunology in the Department of Pathology and Immunology, program head for the Immunology Program, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1997.

Murphy earned a bachelor’s degree from Rice University in 1978 and a combined M.D./Ph.D. degree in 1984 from Johns Hopkins University. He then completed his postdoctoral fellowship in molecular immunology and a pathology residency at Washington University. As a postdoctoral scholar, he generated one of the first TCR transgenic mice to facilitate the study of T-cell biology — a model still widely used around the world. He joined the Washington University faculty in 1990 and became a professor in 1999.