Mrs. Mounia CHIDIAC

School of Food Industry Engineering
School of Mediterranean Agricultural Engineering
School of Agricultural Engineering for Mediterranean Countries Beirut

Instructor

(+961) 1 421 000 ext 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.

Highest degree : PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular biology - Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) [Belgium]