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Overview

Richard A. Murphy was affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases. The subfields of study included infectious diseases, epidemiology, virology, emergency medicine, and health.

The main topics covered in Murphy's work were:

  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • HIV/AIDS research and interventions
  • HIV research and treatment
  • Fungal infections and studies
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Tuberculosis research and epidemiology
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Murphy had published extensively, including a book titled Geospatial Data Governance Policies and Procedures released by National Academies Press eBooks in 2025.

Frequent coauthors included Henry Sunpath, Timothy Hatlen, HeeEun Kang, Suzette Rovelsky, and Ben Siggery, each contributing to multiple collaborative works.

The prominent venues where Murphy's research appeared were:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • EClinicalMedicine
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Selected recent papers published by Murphy were:

  • "Increased Mortality With Delayed and Missed Switch to Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa" (2020), JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • "The burden of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2024), EClinicalMedicine
  • "Detection of HIV Virologic Failure and Switch to Second-Line Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Data From Sub-Saharan Africa" (2022), Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • "Time to embrace access programmes for medicines: lessons from the South African flucytosine access programme" (2020), International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "A nurse-led intervention to improve management of virological failure in public sector HIV clinics in Durban, South Africa: A pre- and post-implementation evaluation" (2021), South African Medical Journal

Best Publications

  • Myosin phosphorylation and the cross-bridge cycle in arterial smooth muscle.

    Patrick F. Dillon;Mark O. Aksoy;Steven P. Driska;Richard A. Murphy

  • Biosynthesis and post-translational processing of the precursor to brain-derived neurotrophic factor

    S J Mowla;H F Farhadi;H F Farhadi;S Pareek;S Pareek;J K Atwal;J K Atwal

  • Cross-bridge phosphorylation and regulation of latch state in smooth muscle

    Chi-Ming Hai;R. A. Murphy

  • Cellular processing of the neurotrophin precursors of NT3 and BDNF by the mammalian proprotein convertases

    Nabil G. Seidah;Suzanne Benjannet;Sangeeta Pareek;Michel Chrétien

  • Differential Sorting of Nerve Growth Factor and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Hippocampal Neurons

    S. Javad Mowla;Sangeeta Pareek;Hooman F. Farhadi;Kevin Petrecca

  • Cellular processing of the nerve growth factor precursor by the mammalian pro-protein convertases.

    Nabil G. Seidah;Suzanne Benjannet;Sangeeta Pareek;Diane Savaria

  • Detection of brain-derived neurotrophic factor-like activity in fibroblasts and Schwann cells: inhibition by antibodies to NGF.

    Ann Acheson;Philip A. Barker;Ralph F. Alderson;Freda D. Miller

  • Length-Tension Relationship of Smooth Muscle of the Hog Carotid Artery

    Jeremiah T. Herlihy;Richard A. Murphy

  • Mammalian subtilisin/kexin isozyme SKI-1: A widely expressed proprotein convertase with a unique cleavage specificity and cellular localization

    Nabil G. Seidah;Seyed J. Mowla;Josée Hamelin;Aida M. Mamarbachi

  • Ca2+ Crossbridge Phosphorylation, and Contraction

    Hai Cm;Murphy Ra

  • Myosin light chain phosphorylation associated with contraction in arterial smooth muscle.

    S. P. Driska;M. O. Aksoy;R. A. Murphy

  • Myoplasmic [Ca2+] determines myosin phosphorylation in agonist-stimulated swine arterial smooth muscle.

    C M Rembold;R A Murphy

  • Role of Ca2+ and myosin light chain phosphorylation in regulation of smooth muscle

    M. O. Aksoy;R. A. Murphy;Kristine E Kamm

  • Ca2+, cAMP, and changes in myosin phosphorylation during contraction of smooth muscle

    M. O. Aksoy;S. Mras;Kristine E Kamm;R. A. Murphy

  • Regulation of shortening velocity by cross-bridge phosphorylation in smooth muscle.

    Chi-Ming Hai;R. A. Murphy

  • What is special about smooth muscle? The significance of covalent crossbridge regulation.

    Richard A. Murphy

  • Calcium-Dependent Stress Maintenance Without Myosin Phosphorylation in Skinned Smooth Muscle

    Meeta Chatterjee;Richard A. Murphy

  • Sildenafil, a type-5 CGMP phosphodiesterase inhibitor, specifically amplifies endogenous cGMP-dependent relaxation in rabbit corpus cavernosum smooth muscle in vitro.

    Alex T. Chuang;John D. Strauss;Richard A. Murphy;William D. Steers

  • The mouse submandibular gland: an exocrine organ for growth factors.

    R A Murphy;A Y Watson;J Metz;W G Forssmann

  • Detection and processing of peripheral myelin protein PMP22 in cultured Schwann cells.

    Sangeeta Pareek;U. Suter;G. J. Snipes;A. A. Welcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry G. W. Arnason
Barry G. W. Arnason University of Chicago
Richard Jed Wyatt
Richard Jed Wyatt St. Elizabeths Hospital
Marian R. Neutra
Marian R. Neutra Harvard Medical School
William J. Freed
William J. Freed National Institute on Drug Abuse
Carl W. Cotman
Carl W. Cotman University of California, Irvine
Nabil G. Seidah
Nabil G. Seidah University of Montreal
Timothy E. Kennedy
Timothy E. Kennedy Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Story C. Landis
Story C. Landis National Institutes of Health
Freda D. Miller
Freda D. Miller University of British Columbia
David L. Kaplan
David L. Kaplan Tufts University

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