Education
University of Birmingham.
lecturer molecular biologist Biogen Professor
University of Birmingham.
The team of Kenneth Murray developed the vaccine against hepatitis B and he is one of the founders of Biogen. This was the first vaccine made using genetic engineering. From 1960 to 1964 he was a researcher at Murray Luck"s laboratory at Stanford University and from 1964 to 1967 he was a researcher at Fred Sanger"s laboratory at Cambridge University.
In 1967, he was appointed lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and in 1976 he became Head of Molecular Biology.
In 1984 he was appointed Biogen Professor of Molecular Biology, a post which he retained until his retirement.
Royal Society.