David H. Murdock is an American scientist, physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist from the United States. He is the founder of the Templeton Foundation and the David H. Murdock Institute for Research in Human Genomics (formerly the Institute for Human Genetics), and was formerly Professor and Vice Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Duke University Medical Center
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Murdock has devoted most of his career to improving agricultural production worldwide with his seed-biotechnology company, Mycogen Corporation, which was later acquired by DuPont. He is a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), he has received honorary degrees from more than twenty colleges and universities including Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton.