Sean Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., is a board certified pathologist, assistant director of the UWMC Clinical Microbiology Laboratory and a UW Professor of Laboratory Medicine.   

Dr. Murphy has a specialized interest in parasitic diseases, especially infections caused by malaria parasites. Even though he does not see patients face-to-face very often, as a pathologist and physician he is thrilled when his team identifies the cause of someone's illness.

Dr. Murphy earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University, Chicago. His research aims to develop better malaria vaccines and diagnostic tests. He is a member of the UW-based Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases and is a clinical investigator with the Seattle-based Malaria Clinical Trials Center, a translational research center that works to safely determine the efficacy of malaria vaccine and drug candidates through controlled human malaria infection trials.