Dr. Eliane Chouery

Dr. Eliane Chouery is an associate professor and co-coordinator of the Genetics Discipline in the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, at the Lebanese American University. Dr. Eliane obtained her PhD in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology from Université de Versailles Saint Quentein-en-Yvelines, France in 2008. She established, in 1998, the Molecular Biology Unit for molecular diagnosis, and in 2005 the Human Identification section at Saint Joseph University of Beirut.

Besides her expertise in the field of molecular diagnoses, her main research projects are based on the identification of genes involved in orphan diseases, of which mainly syndromic and non-syndromic intellectual disability, neurodegenerative disorders and deafness. Her work in linking genes to human disorders contributes to the understanding of the physiopathogenic mechanism driving these diseases which might enable the elucidation of physiological mechanisms, and may in some cases lead to the implementation of new therapeutic approaches. Today, she is author and co-author of 140 papers published in peer-reviewed journals with an h-index of 39. Dr. Chouery has been recognized by several awards in acknowledgment of her achievements.