Scott Murphy (1936 – 13 April 2006) was an American hematologist, medical researcher, and professor of medicine.
There he began the research into blood platelets and methods for improving their storage that became the focus of his professional career.
[1]In 1969 Murphy and Frank H. Gardner (1919–2013) demonstrated that room temperature of blood platelets is less deleterious than their refrigerated storage.
From 1976 to 1993 he was a member of Center City, Philadelphia's Cardeza Foundation for Hematology Research at Thomas Jefferson University.
In 1993 he relocated upon being appointed the associate medical director of the Penn-Jersey Region, American Red Cross (Philadelphia).