Thomas H. Murray è attualmente Presidente dello Hastings Center, ed è stato Direttore del Center for Biomedical Ethics alla Facoltà di Medicina presso la Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio), nonché Presidente della American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. E’ tra i fondatori della rivista Medical Humanities Review, e siede nel comitato redazionale di The Hastings Center Report; Human Gene Therapy; Politics and the Life Sciences; Cloning, Science, and Policy; Medscape General Medicine; Teaching Ethics; the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Tra i suoi libri più recenti The Worth of a Child, e Healthcare Ethics and Human Values, con Bill Fulford e Donna Dickenson, The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals and Policy Makers, con Carol Levine. Ha curato con Maxwell J. Mehlman la Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Attualmente appartiene ai seguenti comitati: Ethics Committee of HUGO, the Human Genome Organization NIH Blue Ribbon Panel on Conflict of Interest Center for Strategic & International Studies’ Council on Biotechnology Research, Innovation and Public Policy Advisory Committee for the Genomics Institute at the Wadsworth Center Affiliated Scholar of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee Board of Directors of Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy Chair, Ethical Issues Review Panel, World Anti-Doping Agency. I dettagli del lavoro di Thomas Murray e degli attuali progetti dello Hastings Centre nel campo della genetica e genomica sono consultabili sul sito www.thehastingscenter.org