Laura E. Fraser, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, where she leads curriculum development in biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics. A Louisiana native, Dr. Fraser earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed postdoctoral research in trypanosome biology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, while pursuing educational activities at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.