Marianne Abi Fadel, PharmD, PhD, is a professor of Molecular biology and Biochemistry and Dean of the School of Pharmacy at USJ.Her achievements include the discovery of the implication of PCSK9 in hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular complications that paved the way for new drugs fighting these diseases. She has several papers in high impact journals.She was awarded several distinctions in France and Lebanon for her research.
Education
Degree, College Notre Dame Jamhour, Beirut, 1990.
Doctor of Pharmacy, University Saint-Joseph, Beirut, 1996.
Medical laboratory and Biochemistry, Diploma in Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Biology, Université Saint Joseph,
Master of Science in Biochemistry-Nutrition, University Paris Descartes, 1999.
PhD in Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University Paris Descartes, 2003.
HDR (French accreditation to supervise research/ Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Université Paris Descartes, 2009
Career
Marianne Abi Fadel is the dean since 2013 of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Saint Joseph University of Beirut USJ, head of the Biochemistry and Molecular Therapeutics laboratory (LBTM) at the School of Pharmacy and head the the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory, USJ Lebanon (since 2018). She is a researcher and a professor of biochemistry and Molecular biology. After discovering the implication of the mutations of PCSK9 in familial hypercholesterolemia at INSERM in Paris, she pursues her reaserch on the genetic of familial hypercholesterolemia, cardiovascular, metabolic and non communicable diseases, in collaboration with INSERM1148 team in Paris and other international teams at IRCM Montreal, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the FHSC/EAS. She works on improving the diagnosis of non communicable diseases but also of communicable and infectious diseases (COVID19, tuberculosis…) in collaboration with the Mérieux Foundation and Gabriel Network.
Membership
Member of the European Atherosclerosis Society, EAS/FHSC;
Member of the International Society of Atherosclerosis
Member of the GABRIEL network
Elected member of the Académie Nationale de Pharmacie, France
Member of the Saint Joseph University of Beirut government board
Member of the government board of the USJ hospital : Hotel Dieu de France of Beirut