French
Mounia CHIDIAC
Chargé de Cours
School of Food Industry Engineering
School of Mediterranean Agricultural Engineering
School of Agricultural Engineering for Mediterranean Countries Beirut
+961 (8) 803 325 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctorat - Biochimie et biologie moléculaire | Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Belgique | 2015 |
Research themes
Molecular BiologyOncologyBiochemistry
Publications and communications
Apolipoprotein L1 is expressed in papillary thyroid carcinomas
Mounia Chidiac, MohammadFayyad-Kazan, Jalil Daher, Philippe Poelvoorde, Isabelle
Bar, 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 Saccharomyces
cerevisiae
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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