Calli McMurray.

Calli McMurray

Reporter
The Transmitter

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Calli McMurray is a reporter for The Transmitter, where she covers research integrity, brain-body physiology and unique animal models. She also reports on structural and regulatory issues that affect research.

Before joining The Transmitter in 2024, she interned at The Chronicle of Higher Education and freelanced for STAT, The Texas Observer, KFF Health News and elsewhere.

From this contributor

Research image of grids of mouse and human brain scans.
Spectrum

Too much or too little brain synchrony may underlie autism subtypes

By Calli McMurray
17 April 2025 | 6 min read
Research image of olfactory bulb activity.
Olfaction

Smell studies often use unnaturally high odor concentrations, analysis reveals

By Calli McMurray
16 April 2025 | 7 min read
A hand holds a magnifying glass over a sheet of paper.
Funding

Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated

By Calli McMurray
2 April 2025 | 7 min read
NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Science and society

Acting NIH director dismisses five neuroscientists from advisory boards

By Calli McMurray, Angie Voyles Askham
25 March 2025 | 5 min read
Cognitive neuroscientist Nick Turk-Browne helps an infant into an fMRI machine.
Cognitive neuroscience

What infant fMRI is revealing about the developing mind

By Calli McMurray
20 March 2025 | 12 min read

Education

  • M.A. in science journalism, New York University
  • B.S. in neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin

Articles

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Research image of neural progenitor cells.
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