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Mounia CHIDIAC
École supérieure d'ingénieurs agroalimentaires – Chargé de cours
École supérieure d'ingénieurs d'agronomie méditerranéenne – Chargé de cours
École supérieure d'ingénieurs d'agronomie méditerranéenne Beyrouth – Chargé de cours
+961 (1) 421 000 mounia.chidiac@usj.edu.lb
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;">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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;">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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;">Teaching areas include structural, food and metabolic biochemistry, biotechnology, cell biology, nutrition, bioinformatics, and medical parasitology.<o:p></o:p></p>
Education
| Diplôme | Université | Pays | Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHD in biochemistry and molecular biology | Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Belgium | 2015 |
Teaching at USJ
University teaching outside USJ
| University teaching outside USJ | Pays | 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 |
Professional experience outside USJ
Areas of expertise
Research themes
Molecular biology<div>Oncology</div><div>Biochemistry</div>
Publications and communications
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;"><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Apolipoprotein L1 is expressed in papillary thyroid carcinomas</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic">Mounia Chidiac</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-style: italic">, MohammadFayyad-Kazan, Jalil Daher, Philippe Poelvoorde, IsabelleBar, Carine Maenhaut, Paul Delrée, Bassam Badran, Luc Vanhamme.<br>Pathology Research and Practice. 2016. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)">doi:10.1016/j.prp.2016.04.004<br></span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Human apolipoprotein L1 interferes with mitochondrial function in </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic">Saccharomycescerevisiae</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 4.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">n</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic">Mounia Chidiac, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-style: italic">Jalil Daher, Mélanie Boeckstaens, Philippe Poelvoorde, Bassam</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-style: italic">Badran, Anna Maria Marini, Roy Khalaf and Luc Vanhamme</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Mol Med Rep. 2020 Sep; 22(3): 1910–1920. doi: 10.3892/mmr.2020.1127</span></p></div></div></div><br></p>