Tala MOHSEN KANSON AJAMI (EL)

Instructor

School of Engineering of Beirut

School of Engineering of Beirut - Zahle and Beqaa Branch

Faculty of Nursing Sciences - Branch of Zahle and the Bekaa

+961 (1) 421 000 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
Doctorat - Biologie moléculaire, biologie clinique	Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis	France

Research themes

HIPS - Cancer cells

Publications and communications

Rémi Safi, Elie Malek, Georges Nemer, Reem Sayed, Edward Eid, Samar Khalil, Nourhane Nasser, Ossama Abbas, Tala Mohsen-Kanson*, Mazen Kurban*. ‘Comparative characterization of sun exposed sun protected 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-correspondingauthor Rémi Safi, Tala Mohsen-Kanson, Georges Nemer, Batoul Dekmak, Nelly Rubeiz, Marwan El-Sabban, Dany Nassar, Assaad Eid, Ossama Abbas, Abdul-Ghani Kibbi, Mazen Kurban. ‘Loss of ferrochelatase is protective against colon cancer cells: ferrochelatase a possible regulator of the long noncoding RNA H19’ J Gastrointest Oncol. 2019 Oct doi: 10.21037/jgo.2019.03.09. Hafner AL, Mohsen-Kanson T, Dani C. ‘Differentiation of brown adipocyte progenitors derived from induced 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, Bagnis C, Chignon-Sicard B, Svensson PA, Casteilla L, Smith A, Dani C. “Differentiation of human induced pluripotent 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 Christian Dani. “Expression of cell surface markers during self-renewal and differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells.” Biochem. Biophys Res Commun 2013 Jan 18;430(3):871-5