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Dr. Murray came to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1947 as a commissioned Public Health Services (PHS) officer in the Laboratory of Biologics Controls, which later became the Division of Biological Standards (DBS). He was Director director of DBS from 1955 to 1972. According to Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, this was not a position he wanted or for which he was particularly well-suited. He had been in the Army during World War II and had built a reputable career studying hepatitis. He was a member of Commissioned Corps of the PHS so , but as a PHS Commissioned Corps officer, he did not have much choice in whether or not to take the position.
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When DBS became administratively part of the FDA in 1972, Dr. Murray was appointed Special Assistant special assistant to the Director director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He requested this transfer himself, wanting to stay within NIH. He was also in poor health at this point and had been relying on Dr. Ruth Kirschstein to make decisions for many products under review by DBS and help him with his administrative duties.
He Murray was the author or coauthor of more than 50 scientific papers, and he received the U.S. Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal in 1965. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Public Health Association and a member of the American Association of Immunologists and the American Medical Association. Dr. Murray retired in 1973 as an Assistant Surgeon General. He died in 1980.
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