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Mounia CHIDIAC

Mounia CHIDIAC

Instructor

School of Food Industry Engineering
Chargé de Cours

School of Mediterranean Agricultural Engineering
Chargé de Cours

School of Agricultural Engineering for Mediterranean Countries Beirut
Chargé de Cours

+961 (1) 421 000 mounia.chidiac@usj.edu.lb

Holder of a doctorate (Ph. D) in Sciences at the Université libre de Bruxelles -Belgium, research interests focus on the field of thyroid cancer at the molecular level to exploit the role of the unknown ApoL1 gene. Collaboration with researchers from several other disciplines highlighted a mitochondrial effect of Apol1 in the yeast “Saccharomyces cerevisiae”. The research work has been published in research publications including Spandidos and Pathology – Research and Practice.

Currently, lecturer at ESIAM - Saint Joseph University since 2021 and associate professor in the department of Chemistry-Biochemistry at the Lebanese University and in the department of Nutrition as supervisor of master's project in nutrition: dietetics and food management since 2016.

Teaching areas include structural, food and metabolic biochemistry, biotechnology, cell biology, nutrition, bioinformatics, and medical parasitology

Education

Degree University Country Year
PHD in biochemistry and molecular biology Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium 2015

Teaching at USJ

Structural Biochemistry
Metabolic Biochemistry
Industry of fruits and vegetables

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ Country Institution Start date End date
Associate Professor Lebanon Université Libanaise (UL) 01/10/2019 30/09/2025
Associate Professor Lebanon Université Libanaise (UL) 01/09/2016 30/09/2025

Areas of expertise

Engineering and Technology, Sciences

Research themes

Molecular Biology
Oncology
Biochemistry

Publications and communications

Apolipoprotein L1 is expressed in papillary thyroid carcinomas

Mounia Chidiac, MohammadFayyad-Kazan, Jalil Daher, Philippe Poelvoorde, IsabelleBar, Carine Maenhaut, Paul Delrée, Bassam Badran, Luc Vanhamme.
Pathology Research and Practice. 2016. doi:10.1016/j.prp.2016.04.004
Human apolipoprotein L1 interferes with mitochondrial function in Saccharomycescerevisiae

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Mounia Chidiac, Jalil Daher, Mélanie Boeckstaens, Philippe Poelvoorde, Bassam

Badran, Anna Maria Marini, Roy Khalaf and Luc Vanhamme

Mol Med Rep. 2020 Sep; 22(3): 1910–1920. doi: 10.3892/mmr.2020.1127