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Dr. Murray came to the 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 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 built a reputable career studying hepatitis. He was a member of Commissioned Corps of the PHS, however, so, he did not have much say in taking the position or not
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He recruited Dr. Samuel Baron, one of the leading virologists of that era and a polio expert, to DBS to help sort out the aftermath of the Cutter polio incident. He worked with Drs. Kirschstein, Baron, and Van Hoosier on the live attenuated poliovirus vaccine. Did studies with Rhesus monkeys (from The Record article February 1960).
When DBS became administratively part of the FDA in 1972, Dr. Murray was appointed special assistant to the 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. Kirschstein to make decisions for many products under review by DBS, in addition to helping him with his administrative duties.
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He 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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