Tala MOHSEN KANSON AJAMI (EL)

School of Engineering of Beirut - Zahle and Beqaa Branch – Chargé de cours

Faculty of Nursing Sciences - Branch of Zahle and the Bekaa – Chargé de cours

School of Engineering of Beirut – Chargé de cours

Faculty of Nursing Science – Chargé de cours

+961 (8) 803 325 tala.mohsenkanson@usj.edu.lb

Tala Kansoun has been an associate adjunct professor at the Lebanese University since 2014 also serves as an adjunct lecturer at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. Her research focuses on stem cells and cancer.

Education

Degree	University	Country	Year
PHD	Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis	France	2012

Teaching at USJ

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ	Country	Institution	Start date	End date

Professional experience outside USJ

Areas of expertise

Medecine and Health

Research themes

HIPS - Cancer cells

Publications and communications

Rémi Safi, Elie Malek, Georges Nemer, Reem Sayed, Edward Eid, Samar Khalil, Nourhane Nasser, OssamaAbbas, Tala Mohsen-Kanson*, Mazen Kurban*. ‘Comparative characterization of sun exposed sunprotected skin-derived mesenchymal-like stem cells in variegate porphyria and healthy individuals’Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed. 2020 Dec 1. doi: 10.1111/phpp.12635. *last co-correspondingauthorRémi Safi, Tala Mohsen-Kanson, Georges Nemer, Batoul Dekmak, Nelly Rubeiz, Marwan El-Sabban, DanyNassar, Assaad Eid, Ossama Abbas, Abdul-Ghani Kibbi, Mazen Kurban. ‘Loss of ferrochelatase is protectiveagainst colon cancer cells: ferrochelatase a possible regulator of the long noncoding RNA H19’ J GastrointestOncol. 2019 Oct doi: 10.21037/jgo.2019.03.09.Hafner AL, Mohsen-Kanson T, Dani C. ‘Differentiation of brown adipocyte progenitors derived frominduced pluripotent stem cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2018; doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7799-4_4.Mohsen-Kanson T, Hafner AL, Wdziekonski B, Takashima Y, Villageois P, Carrière A, Svensson M, BagnisC, Chignon-Sicard B, Svensson PA, Casteilla L, Smith A, Dani C. “Differentiation of human inducedpluripotent stem cells into brown and white adipocytes: Role of Pax3”. Stem Cells, 2013 Dec 3. Doi:10.1002/stem. 16070.Tala Mohsen-Kanson, Anne-Laure Hafner, Brigitte Wdziekonski, Bérengère Chignon-Sicard and ChristianDani. “Expression of cell surface markers during self-renewal and differentiation of human adipose-derivedstem cells.” Biochem. Biophys Res Commun 2013 Jan 18;430(3):871-5