Andrew W. Murray | |
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| Education | Clare College, Cambridge Harvard Medical School |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary biology Molecular biology |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco Harvard University |
| Thesis | Chromosome and plasmid behavior in yeast (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jack Szostak |
| Other academic advisors | Marc Kirschner |
Andrew W. Murray is a British-born American evolutionary biologist known for his research on budding yeast. He is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at Harvard University. [1] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 [2] and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. [3] [4]