Dr. Murphy Jr has been serving as the chairman and the chief executive officer of AlphaMed Consulting, Inc., a biomedical consulting company since March 2003. He provides executive consultation on cancer drug development, clinical trial design, key thought leader identification, and strategic analysis of big data and artificial intelligence to both corporate executives as well as cancer drug developers.
Dr. Murphy Jr was the founding chief executive officer of CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a non-profit organization that works to develop and implement initiatives that reduce the risk of cancer, from August 2000 to January 2020. He received the Charles A. Sanders Life Sciences Award presented by Life Sciences Consortium and CEO Roundtable on Cancer in November 2019. Dr. Murphy Jr has been the Emeritus Director of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer since January 2021. He has also been a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology since 2013.
Dr. Murphy Jr was awarded a Master of Science in Biology from New York University in the United States in February 1967, a Ph.D. in Biology from New York University in the United States in June 1969, and a Doctor of Medical Science (honoris causa) from the Queen’s University of Belfast in the United Kingdom in July 2009.