Dr. Meaghan Morris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, co-director of the Brain Resource Center (BRC), and co-leader of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Neuropathology Core. Dr. Morris received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, doing her Ph.D. in collaboration with the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease. Dr. Morris then completed her Anatomic Pathology residency and Neuropathology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and is certified by the American Board of Pathology in both Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology. As Neuropathology faculty, she has a clinical practice in neuropathology including the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease at autopsy.

Dr. Morris leads a basic research program focusing on understanding the molecular basis for Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related dementias. Her research combines advanced spatial technologies like spatial transcriptomics and more classic pathologic measures to understand the relationship between aging and Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular focus on tau pathology.