Abstract
I am sad to inform you that Dr. Marion Murray, professor emeritus in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine, has passed away following complications of esophageal cancer. Dr. Murray was a founding member of the Spinal Cord Research Center at Drexel University. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin in physiology. In 1973 she moved to The Medical College of Pennsylvania, a predecessor of Drexel University. Dr. Murray was motivated by the devastating impact of damage to the spinal cord on patients and neuroscience beyond her initial vision.
Dr. Murray received numerous awards, including the NIH Javits Neurosciences Achievement Award and, most recently, the Reeve-Irvine Research Award. She served an editorial boards such as Experimental Neurology and Journal of Comparative Neurology, on scientific review committees including the NIH and the VA, and as the scientific director of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, a private foundation focused on spinal cord injury.