Melissa E. Murray is an American translational neuropathologist and Professor of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic Florida.
[2] After completing her Ph.D., Murray began her postdoctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic with a focus on neuropathology, neuroimaging, and genetics.
[4] She designed an algorithm to subtype Alzheimer’s disease based on topographic distribution of tangles, leading to the uncovering of neuropathologic influence on syndromic heterogeneity.
[5] She has demonstrated how research-based clinical cutpoints of amyloid-PET imaging corresponded to underlying neuropathology,[6] and used digital pathology as a deep phenotyping approach to reveal novel protein-coding genes implicated in selective vulnerability observed in Alzheimer’s disease.
[11] In 2016, Murray received the Alzheimer's Association de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging award[12][13] and was named New Investigator of 2016.