Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees

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Laurence Marguerite Morel
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine
1992

Degrees earned:
Ph.D., Universite Aix-Marseille II, France, 1983          
M.S., Universite Aix-Marseille II, France, 1980            

Professor Laurence Morel is recognized as an authority on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).  Her main interests are to identify the genes that confer SLE-susceptibility and the contribution of autoimmunity to the disease.  As a geneticist, she has used mouse models to determine that SLE is a complex multi-trait disease, which involves regions on chromosomes 1 and 4.  Morel’s work is currently funded by three NIH grants.  She is a member of the HAI study section of the NIH, a member of the Alliance for Lupus Research Study Section, and a member of the editorial board of Autoimmunity.  Morel also holds a leadership role in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IDP) of the College of Medicine.