CURRICULUM VITAE
Richard F. Murphy, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biomedical Sciences
School of Medicine
Creighton University
Academic Address: School of Medicine
Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
(402) 280-2918
Fax: (402) 280-2690
Home Address: 115 South 126th Street
Omaha, NE 68154
(402) 330-9931
Personal Details: Born, Cork, Ireland, 2 December 1941
Married, 7 children
U.S. Citizen
Education:
1953-1960 North Monastery, Cork
Honors Leaving Certificate
1960-1963 National University of Ireland, Cork
1st Year: Chemistry (Honors), Mathematics, Botany, Physics, Technical German
2nd Year: Biochemistry (Honors), Chemistry
3rd Year: B.Sc. Biochemistry (Honors) and Chemistry
Present Positions:
Creighton University, School of Medicine
2009- Professor Emeritus in Biomedical Sciences
National University of Ireland, Galway
1997-2009 Honorary Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry
Previous Positions:
Creighton University, School of Medicine
1988-2009 The Carpenter Personal Chair in Biochemistry
Chairman, Department of Biomedical Sciences,
incorporating previous Departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology
1991-1998 Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine
The Queen's University of Belfast
1987-1988 Head of Department of Biochemistry
1986-1988 Personal Chair in Molecular Endocrinology
1984-1990 Co-founder and Director of The Biosyn Company
1982-1986 Reader in Biohchemistry
The University of Cincinnati
1980-1982 Visiting Professor, Division of Expermintal G.I. and Endocrine Surgery,
College of Medicine
The Queen's University of Belfast
1980- Reader in Biochemistry
1975-1988 Co-founder and Director of The Action Cancer Research Unit
1972-1979 Lecturer in Biochemistry
1970-1972 Research Fellow of the Faculty of Medicine
National Dairy Research Centre, Fermoy
1967-1970 Department of Chemistry, The Agricultural Institute, Reasearch Officer
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1963-1966 Department of Biochemistry, Research Assistant and Senior Demonstrator
to Science, Medical and Dental students
Honors:
1997 Honary Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry, Nation University of Ireland, Galway
1991 The Carpenter Endowed Chair in Medicine at Creighton University, Omaha
1988 Universities' Who's Who, First Edition (U.K.)
1986 Personal Chair in Molecular Endocrinology at Queen's University, Belfast
1987 Head of Biochemistry at Queen's University of Belfast
2005 Recognized as one of Top 15 Irish-American Life Scientists by Enterprise Ireland, Biolink USA-
Ireland and Irish American Magazine
2008 Elected to Board of the Association of American Medical and Graduate Departments of
Biochemistry
2008 Honary Retirement Colloquium "Benefits from Peptide Chemistry
Invited speakers: Former mentees and collaborators from United States and Europe
Sponsored by Creighton University with President presiding
2009 Professor Emeritus in Biomedical Sciences
Teaching:
National University of Ireland, Galway
Tutorial and Laboratory Classes, 8 hours/week to Science, Medical and Dental Students; Supervisor of final year honours
projects
The Queen's University of Belfast
Lectures in Biochemistry to Medical Students and Level 1 Science Students.
Intermediary Metabolism
Lipid, Carbohydrate and Protein Structures
Lectures in advanced courses to honours B.Sc. students in Biochemistry.
Toxcity and metabolism of foreign compounds
Tetrapyrrole metabolism
Complex lipid metabolism
Prostaglandins, chemistry, biosynthesis, functions
Milk constituents, biosynthesis, secretion, chemistry
Radioimmunoassays
Vascular disease, serum lipoproteins
Carcinogenesis
Anticancer drugs
Peptide-based drug design
Participation in design and appraisal of advanced courses
Clinical Biochemistry
Advanced Metabolism
Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders
Practical Course in Drug Metabolism
M.Sc. Course in Analytical Chemistry of Department of Chemistry
Immunometric assay methods
Immunoaffinity chromatography
Drug detection and pharmacokinetics
Supervision of postrgraduate research students
M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Department of Biochemistry and Medicine
M.D. (U.K. research degree) Department of Medicine
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Lectures to residents on polypeptide hormones
Supervision of research by residents and visiting fellows
Creighton University, Omaha
Lectures in Biochemistry to medical students and final year undergraduate students
Membrane structures
Intermediary metabolism
Metabolism of foreign compounds
Case presentations to medical students
Director of Biomedical Sciences and Graduate Program
Director of Gastrointestinal System Course for second year medical students
Supervision of postgraduate research students
Participation on postgraduate students committees
Lectures in Graduate courses
Endocrinology
Regulatory peptides
Drug design
Postgraduate Research Students, served as Major Advisor:
K.N. Holohan | The enzymic iodination of polypeptides | Ph.D., 1975 |
A. Imam | Avoidance of strongly chaptropic eluents for | M.Sc., 1975 |
immunoaffinity chromatography by selective | ||
modification of immobilized ligand | ||
L. McGrath | Radioimmunossay of vincristine | M.Sc., 1979 |
B. Sheridan | Synthesis of antigen derivatives for immunossay | M.Sc. 1979 |
with biological amplification | ||
G.J.C. Kelly | Studies on the comparative enzymology of normal | Ph.D., 1981 |
and lekaemic lymphocytes | ||
J.C. Mason | Secretin and related peptides | Ph.D., 1981 |
R. Clarke | The response of human breast carcinoma cells in | M.Sc., 1982 |
culture to cytotoxic drugs and hormones | ||
B.J. McDermott | Biochemical monitoring of cancer therapy | Ph.D., 1982 |
B. Postlethwaite | Radioimmunoassay of adriamycin | M.Sc., 1983 |
D.G. Kennedy | The clinical and biochemical pharmacology of | Ph.D., 1983 |
methotrexate in human breast cancer | ||
T. Griffiths | Estimation of free bilirubin | M.Sc., 1986 |
R. Clarke | Interactions of cytotoxic drugs and steroid hormones | Ph.D., 1986 |
in breast cancer cells | ||
A. Douglas | Analogues of gastin and cholecystokinin | Ph.D., 1986 |
T. Taylor | The metabolism of erythropoeitin | Ph.D., 1988 |
J. McKillop | Isolation and characterization of peptides related to | Ph.D., 1989 |
gastrin releasing peptide | ||
P. Armstrong | Studies of human growth hormone releasing factor | Ph.D., 1989 |
M. Cremin | Interaction of peptide hormones with breast cancer | Ph.D., 1990 |
S. McGrath | Studies of pancreastatin | Ph.D., 1990 |
A. O'Neill | Polypeptides related to glucagon in the lower intestine | Ph.D., 1991 |
M. Pete | Isolation and characterization of a potent neurotoxin | Ph.D., 1992 |
from the venom of the scorption Centruriodes | ||
sculpturatus Ewing | ||
K. Gupta | Interleukin-1 receptors in relation to atopy | Ph.D., 1999 |
G. Abu-El-Ella | Biochemical studies on uncoupling proteins and glucose | Ph.D., 2002 |
metabolism in skeletal muscle | ||
F. Wibowo | Study of receptor binding and growth effect of gastrin gene products | M.S., 2002 |
B. Singh | Molecular Mechanisms of Growth Inhibition Mediated by | Ph.D., 2004 |
Retinoic Acid in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells | ||
A. Agrawal | Expression of leukema/lymphoma related factor (LRF) in human | Ph.D., 2008 |
breast carcinoma |
Developement of New Graduate Program:
Ph.D. programs in Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiiology at Creighton University were combined and coordinated to
provide a flexible graduate research program in Biomedical Sciences with training in Biochemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry,
Cell and Development Biology, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology and Physiology. Education is based mainly on
participation in research rather than didactic courses.
Administration:
Faculty Recruitment and Development:
The Queen's University of Belfast
Brian Walker, Research Fellow, 1986; Tenure as Lecturer, 1988; Reader, 1996; Professor and Chair, 1999; Peptide Chemistry,
Molecular Enzymology
John Nelson, Research Fellow, 1988; Tenure as Lecturer, 1991; Reader, 2000; Cancer Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Ambikaipakam Balasubramanium, Assistant Professor, 1981; Tenure as Associate Professor 1992; Professor, 1998; Peptide
Chemistry
Creighton University, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Thomas E. Adrian, Professor, 1988; tenure, 1989; Pathophysiology of the gut; Regulatory peptides.
J. Michael Conlon, Professor, 1988; promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1990; Molecular evolution of peptide
hormones.
Dale R. Bergren, promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1990; pulmonary physiology.
D. David Smith, Assistant Professor, 1989; tenure, 1994; promotion to Associate Professor, 1995; Polypeptide synthesis.
Philip R. Brauer, Assistant Professor, 1990; promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1995; promotion to Professor,
2008; Molecular signaling in developmental biology.
John A. Yee, Professor, 1990; tenure, 1991; Control of bone growth.
Bernd Fritzsch, Associate Professor, 1990; promotion to Professor and tenure, 1993; Comparative neuroembryology of the
auditory system.
David H. Petzel, Assistant Professor, 1990; promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1996; promotion to Professor,
2005; Natriuretic peptides; calcium second messengers.
Roger D. Reidelberger, Assistant Professor, 1990; promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1993; promotion to
Professor, 1998; Control of appetite and digestion.
Clague P. Hodgson, Associate Professor, 1991; tenure, 1996; Gene therapy.
Joseph A. Knezetic, Assistant Professor, 1991; tenure, 1997; promotion to Associate Professor, 2002; Transcriptional
regulation of hemoglobin genes.
Eric B. Patterson, Assistant Professor, 1991; tenure, 1997; Molecular biology of collagen synthesis.
James M. Hicks, promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1991; Cardiovascular physiology.
Robert B. Mackin, Assistant Professor, 1992; promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1997; Regulation and specificity
of enzymes involved in peptide hormone biosynthesis.
Arthur F. Dalley, promotion to Professor, 1992; Clinical anatomy.
Thomas M. Vollberg, Sr., Assistant Professor, 1992; Gene expression in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation
by retinoic acid and transforming growth factor‑beta
Thomas E. Pisarri, Assistant Professor, 1992; tenure, 1997; Sensory innervation of airways and heart.
Jeffrey M. Palmer, Assistant Professor, 1992; Neurophysiological control of gastrointestinal function and enteric
neuroimmune interactions.
Sandor Lovas, Assistant Professor, 1993; tenure, 1999; promotion to Associate Professor, 2002; promotion to Professor,
2007; Peptide molecular dynamics and structure‑activity relationships; Computational chemistry, structure-activity
relationships in peptides.
Dominique Crapon de Caprona, Adjunct Professor, 1993; Neuro‑ethology and behavior.
Laura A. Bruce, tenure, 1993; promotion to Associate Professor, 1995; promotion to Professor, 2008; Neuronal
development and comparative anatomy.
Roger D. Reidelberger, promotion to Associate Professor and tenure, 1993; promotion to Professor, 1998; Control of appetite
and digestion.
Thomas H. Quinn, promotion to Professor, 1996; Avian embroyology.
Gleb R. Haynatzki, Assistant Professor, 1997; Biostatistics and applied probability.
Garret A. Soukup, Assistant Professor, 2000; promotion to Associate Professor, 2005; Allosteric ribozymes.
Laura A. Hansen, Assistant Professor, 2000; promotion to Associate Professor, 2005; Signal transduction in carcinogenesis.
Rita A. Meyer, Assistant Professor, 2000; tenure, 2008; Gap junction communication in cell adhesion, growth and
differentiation.
Richard J. Hallworth, Associate Professor, 2000; tenure, 2004; promotion to Professor, 2007; Biophysics and biomechanics
of cochlear outer hair cell motility.
David Z.Z. He, Associate Professor, 2002; tenure, 2007; Biophysical studies of cochlear hair cells in the ear.
Kirk Beisel, Professor, 2002; tenure, 2006; Molecular delineation of the mechanisms of signal transduction in the inner
ear hair cells.
Devendra Agrawal, Professor, 2004. Pathophysiology of allergy and bronchial asthma.
Dianne Cullen, Professor, 2009; Bone Growth.
Planning of New Research Space at Creighton University 1988-1993
I participated in the conceptual, planning and implementation phases of the construction of a new laboratory research tower
of 18,400 square feet, as well as the refurbishment of an existing laboratory research building of 42,000 square
feet, both to be used for biomedical research. These projects were coordinated with the modernization and expansion of
the animal laboratory facilities to incorporate 10,500 square feet.
University Committees:
The Queen's University of Belfast
1972 Association of University Teachers
1974 Honorary President, Queen's University Biochemical Society
1976 - 1977 Committee of the University Staff Common Room (Faculty Dining and Recreation Club)
1977 - 1979 Board of the Institute of Irish Studies
1979 - 1980 Academic council (first term)
1979 - 1980 Departmental Radiation Supervisor and member of the Safety Committee for the
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics
1979 - 1981 University Radiation Protection Sub-Committee, Representative of the Medical Biology Centre
1986 - 1988 Academic Council (second term)
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
1979 - 1980 Committee for the Medical Sciences
Evaluation of graduate programs including M.D./Ph.D. courses
Accreditation of instructors and examiners for graduate program
Creighton University, Omaha
1988 Executive Committee / Executive Operating Committee (five, two-year terms)
1988 Council of Chairman / Leadership Committee
1989 - 1990 School of Medicine Liason Committee on Medical Education: Preparation for
Accreditation Evaluation Task Force
Steering Committee for final report for accreditation
Interview panels with LCME visitors representing the American Medical
Association and the Assocation of American Medical Colleges
1989 - 1995 Committee on Visiting Distinguished Scholars
1990 Chairman of subcommittee of Council of Chairmen to report on "Evaluation of faculty
merit to annual salary increase"
1990 - 1991 Search Committee, Chair of Surgery
1990 - 1992 University representative to Research Policy fora of NSF and NIH
1990 - 1993 Planning Group for New Research Building and Renovation of Criss I Building
1990 - 1993 Legislature, State of Nebraska
Testimony in support of bills to provide research funding from cigarette tax, 1990, 1991, 1993.
Bill passed in 1993 resulting in $1.3 million per annum contract for cancer research at Creighton
University.
1990 - 1996 Steering group for joint EM facility of Creighton University and Boys Town National Research Hospital
1991 - 1992 Search Committee, Director of new Physical Therapy Program
1991 - 1993 Committee on Governance and Administration of School of Medicine
1991 - 1998 Dean's Cabinet, School of Medicine
1991 Elected to Academic Council
1992 - 1993 University Steering Committee for Feasibility Study of the proposed West Omaha Creighton University
Medical Center
1992 - 1993 Research Task Force for coordination of grant fund accounting
1992 - 1993 Presentations to Appropriations Committee of the Nebraska State Legislature, in support of Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, (EPSCoR) 1992, 1993. $650,000 per annum (1993
and 1994) appropriated as state match for NSF grant.
1992 - 1995 Health Sciences Committee for Allocation of Research Support
1992 - 1995 Chairman of Dean's Committee for Allocation of Space in the School of Medicine
1993 - 1994 Representative of Creighton University to develop Cancer Research Contract with the State Department of
Health, including procedures for selection and peer approval of research to be funded
1994 - 1997 PET Research Committee
1995 Chairman of President's Committee to develop Intellectual Property Policy
1995 - 1998 Chairman of Medical Research Committee
1997 - 1999 Advisory Committee Member: Outcomes Research Program
2003 LCME Self-Study Committee for Educational Resources
2004 Subcomittee for Faculty Development, School of Medicine
Invited Courses, Lectures and Colloquial Contributions:
Courses:
Foundation course in Chemistry leading to a Diploma in Food Chemistry requested by the Department of Dairy
and Food Chemistry, National University of Ireland, Cork, and delivered at the Crawford Technical Institute, Cork,
two hours per week in the academic year 1969-70.
To the MSc Course in Clinical Biochemistry, Trinity College, Dublin, lectures on "Affinity chromatography",
"Radioimmunoassay methods" and "Gut hormones", 1971.
To the final year Biochemistry students, National University of Ireland, Galway, lectures as at Trinity College, 1971.
To the final year Biochemistry students, National University of Ireland, Galway, course of five lectures on "Drug Metabolism",
1976.
Department of Biochemistry, Creighton University, Omaha, workshop on "Immunoaffinity chromatography and
immunometric methodology", 1982.
To the final year Biochemisty students, National University of Ireland, Galway, course of 10 lectures on "Development
of Peptide-Based Drugs", 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005.
Lectures:
The Novo Research Institute, Copenhagen, "Gut hormones", 1971.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, on "Lactoperoxidase catalyzed iodination", 1973.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Chicago, "A possible intestinal precursor of glucagon", 1976.
Department of Physiology, The Lilly Research Centre, Indianapolis, "A possible intestinal precursor of glucagon", 1976.
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "The solution of some common problems in immunoaffinity
chromatography", 1980.
Department of Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, "Characterization of gastro entero pancreatic hormones",
1980.
Medical Research and Development Division, Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Deerfield, Illinois, "A critical appraisal of assay
methodology for peptide hormones", 1981.
Department of Physiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, "Multiplicity of glucagon like peptides", 1981.
Cincinnati Oncology Society, "Analytical biochemistry in the service of oncology", 1981.
Department of Physiology, Creighton University, Omaha, "Gastrointestinal hormones in the human circulation", 1981.
Department of Endocrinology, Ohio State University, Columbus, "Gastrointestinal hormones in the human circulation", 1981.
Miami Valley Research Laboratories, Proctor and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, "Caution required in exploiting polypeptide
endocrinology", 1982.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, "Gut/brain polypeptides", 1983.
Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, "Gut/brain polypeptides", 1985.
Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University at Indianapolis,"Neuroregulatory peptides", 1987.
Department of Physiology, University of Kansas, Kansas City, "Design of peptide based drugs", l 987.
Department of Surgery, Yale University, Connecticut, "Gastrin antagonists", 1987.
Department of Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, "Neuroregulatory peptides", 1987.
Biological Society, National University of Ireland, Cork, "Evolutionary Peptides", 1988.
University of Nebraska Medical Center, "Regulatory Peptides", 1989.
Medical College of Ohio, "Gastrin Revisited", 1989.
Creighton University Continuing Medical Education Course, "Peptides and their Clinical Potential", 1989.
Research Conferences of Department of Medicine, Creighton University, "Possibilities with Peptides", 1989.
Department of Surgery, Creighton University, "Therapeutic Possibilities with Peptides", 1989.
Department of Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, "Gastrin Receptor Antagonists", 1990.
Hypertension Center, Creighton University, "Peptides with Potential", 1990.
Association of Medical School Departments of Biochemistry Chairmen, Annual Meeting, "Synthesis of Regulatory Peptide
Analogues and Receptor Probes", 1991.
Offut Air Force Base Medical Personnel, "Biomedical Research", 1991.
Surgical Gut Hormone Symposium, Florissant, Colorado, “Antiangiogenic Peptides", 1992.
Surgical Gut Hormone Symposium, Florissant, Colorado, "Gastrin and Cancer", 1993.
Department of Biochemistry, University College, Dublin, "Structure Activity Relationships in Gastrin", 1993.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Cork, "Structure Activity Relationships in Gastrin", 1994.
Surgical Gut Hormone Symposium, Florissant, Colo., Founder's Lecture: "Conformational Considerations in Design of Peptide
Analogs", 1995.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, “Design of Peptide-based Drugs” , 1996.
National Centre for Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, “Structure-activity relationships in regulatory
peptides, 2000.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Workshop on “Regulatory Peptides: Chemistry and
Biology,” to final year honours students in Biochemistry, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, “Gastrin and Cancer”, 1999.
26th European Peptide Symposium, Montpellier, “Contribution of C-Terminal Structures of Gastrin to Receptor Recognition”,
2000.
Department of Biomedical Chemistry, The Queen’s University of Belfast, “Gastrin and Colonic Cancer: Fact or Fancy”, 2001.
First Nebraska BRIN State Conference, Grand Island, “Research Training in Biomedical Sciences” 2002.
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, “Peptide Targeting Drugs”, 2002.
School of Pharmacy, The Queen’s University of Belfast, “The Receptor-Based Toxicity of GnRH Congugates to Cancer Cells”,
2002.
American Medical and Graduate Scool Departments of Biochemistry, Annual Meeting, “Structure of a Versatile Graduate
Program for Combined Basic Sciences, 2003.
National University of Ireland, Galway, “Memorial lecture on the life and work of Professor Padraig O’Carra”, 2008.
Coloquia:
Colloquium on "Restructuring the Basic Sciences in Medical Schools", Annual Meeting of The Association of Medical
and Graduate School Departments of Biochemistry: "The Advantages of Mergers: Multidisciplinary Strengths", 1995.
NSF: State of Nebraska EPSCoR Conference on Academic Research Competitiveness: "Implications of the Strategic
Agenda and Industrial Linkages". Panelist for discussion on "A New Paradigm for Research: What Happened to
Serendipity?", 1995.
Biochemical Society Colloquium on Postgraduate Education at 632nd meeting. "Motivation of Graduate Students;
Transatlantic Comparisons," Cork, 1989.
The Annual Gut Hormone Symposia, started in 1981, are held annually for informal but in depth discussions on gut
hormones. Basic Scientists are invited as panelists each year. I was a co¬founder and a participant at Cincinnati, 1981,
Santa Monica, 1982 and thereafter annually, at its fixed venue, Florissant, Colorado.
Gastroenterology colloquium, Medizinische clinic, Georg August Universitat, Gottingen, "A reappraisal of structure
function relationships in gastrin, 1988.
Biochemical Society Colloquium on Careers in Biochemistry, "Possibilities with Peptides", Dublin, 1987.
Symposium on Biotechnology at the Bioindustry Development Center (BIDEC), Tokyo, lecture on "Peptides and Drugs", 1985.
Joint colloquium of The Association of Clinical Biochemists and the Industrial Group of the Biochemical Society, lecture on
"Gastrointestinal polypeptides", University of Strathclyde, 1974.
Biochemical Society Colloquium on "Affinity Chromatography", lecture on "Immunoaffinty Chromatography", Galway, 1974.
Sponsored Tour in India: The British Council invited me to make a three week tour of leading endocrine centres in teaching
and research institutions in India, in January 1986. These included the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, the Postgraduate
Institute for Medical Research and Education, Calcutta and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, where I delivered
formal lectures and participated in informal workshops.
I was invited to deliver the "Annual Guest Oration" to the Endocrine Society of India on the topic "Gut/brain hormones", at the
41st Annual Conference of the Association of Physicians, in Udaipur.
Lectures on Government Delegations: I have been called upon to participate in visits with executives of the Industrial
Development Board on overseas promotions, particularly in the U.S.A. and Japan. The purpose was to detail the
strength of Northern Ireland, in technology and biotechnology, as a potential manufacturing location and to explain
the various ways in which interactions with Queen's University would be possible.
Radio and T.V.: I was invited to participate on several occasions, in Belfast and in Omaha, in current affairs and news
programs on cancer drugs, abuse of anabolic steroids and proteomics research to follow sequence of the human gnome.
Membership of Professional Bodies:
Cork Scientific Council, 1967 - 1970
Executive Committee, Program Organizer, 1968 - 1970
Biochemical Society, 1967
Executive Committee Irish Area Section, 1976 - 1980, 1984
Chairman of the Irish Area Section, 1977 - 1979, 1984 - 1987
Committee of Industrial Group, 1976 - 1980
Irish Endocrine Society, 1977
British Society of Gastroenterology, 1978
Irish Association for Cancer Research, 1978
Royal Irish Academy National Committee for Biochemistry, 1978 - 1980, 1986
International Union of Biochemistry, Irish Representative, 1979 - 1981
The Endocrine Society, 1981
The American Peptide Society, Charter Member, 1990
American Chemical Society, 1989
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1990
The Northern Ireland Partnership USA, 1990
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992
Organizer of Meetings and Colloquia of the Biochemical Society:
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