Professor Eric Morand graduated from Medicine at Monash University, trained in clinical rheumatology in Australia and at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, UK and took his PhD at Monash University. His laboratory research focusses on glucocorticoid-induced proteins in the immune system, and his clinical research on systemic lupus erythematosus. He founded the Lupus Clinic at Monash Health, and the Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration, now the largest longitudinal cohort of SLE patients ever assembled. He chaired the 2017 International Congress on SLE, and awards include the William E Paul Distinguished Innovator Award of the Lupus Research Alliance, New York, Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, and the Parr Prize of the Australian Rheumatology Association. He has over 250 publications, which have been cited >12,000 times.