Andy Murray, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is a sociologist and scholar of science and technology studies who focuses on the relationships between emerging biotechnologies, ethics, and social justice. Prior to joining the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn, Dr. Murray served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Global Observatory for Genome Editing at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society. His current project analyzes regional efforts to establish a precision medicine innovation hub and how these efforts remake public and private institutions and benefits.
He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also completed a designated emphasis in Anthropology and a certificate in Science and Justice. His dissertation used an ethnographic approach to analyze a social justice-oriented project to develop an open-source protocol for synthetic insulin production.