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Research Grants
Title: Regulation of cellular ceramide levels by p53-activated pathways in the apoptotic stress response.
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: National Science Foundation, USA
Year: 2001-2004
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Title: Influenza vaccine clinical trials (total 3 trials, >750 subjects)
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: MedImmune, GlaxoSmithKline
Year: 2004-2005, 2010-2013
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Title: Lebanese Inter-hospital Pneumococcal Surveillance Program (LIPSP)
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: PneumoADIP, Pfizer
Year: 2005-2022
| Title: Role of ceramide in adenoviral infection (3 separate grants).
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: Medical Practice Plan, University Research Board, Lebanese National Council For Scientific Research
Year: 1998-2010
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Title: Ceramide regulation of protein kinase C theta (2 separate grants).
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: Medical Practice Plan, University Research Board, Lebanese National Council For Scientific Research
Year: 2003-2009 |
Title: Establishment of an infectious diseases research core facility at the American University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine.
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: Department of Defense, USA
Year: 2008-2013
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Title: Harvard-Middle East Collaborative Network on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases.
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: Dubai Harvard Foundation For Medical Research
Year: 2009-2014
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Title: The role of dihydroceramide desaturase and the dihydroceramide/ceramide rheostat in the in vitro and in vivo adaptive response to hypoxia.
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: Medical Practice Plan, University Research Board, CEDRE
Year: 2016-2018
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Title: Surveillance and characterization of influenza in Lebanon.
Role: Principal Investigator
Source: Sanofi-Pasteur
Year: 2016-2018
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Thesis Project
- Hadile Kobeissy, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, 2014. Thesis title: “Noxa and ceramide: crosstalk between Bcl-2 family and p53-dependent ceramide accumulation in mediating intrinsic apoptosis in Molt-4 human T cell leukemia and HCT116 colon cancer cell lines".
- Botheina Ghandour, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, 2014. Thesis title: “Regulation of ceramide by the novel synthetic retinoid ST1926-induced cell death in HTLV-I transformed and malignant T cells".
- Diana Ghizzawi, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, 2016. Thesis title: “Ceramide regulation by
E4orf4 gene during adenoviral infection".