Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 03/21/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bay/news/3736641.html Frederick A. Murphy, one of the scientists who first identified the Ebola and Marburg viruses, recently joined the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Murphy comes to UTMB from the University of California at Davis, where he was dean of the school of veterinary medicine and a distinguished professor of virology. At UTMB, he is a professor of pathology and the McLaughlin Professor in Residence, a position funded by the James W. McLaughlin Endowment to support training related to research in infectious disease and immunity.