Dr. Pia Chedid is an Assistant Professor in the Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beirut Arab University, since 2022. She holds a PhD in Physiology and Pathophysiology from Université Denis Diderot, Paris, where she also taught as a Junior Lecturer (2008-2012). Her work focuses on immunology, oxidative stress and metabolic disease. She is an active member of the FHS Community and Students Activities Committees, serves as Board Secretary of RESUFF, and has supervised more than seven master’s theses and served on more than twelve MSc thesis juries.

Dr Pia Chedid research interests focus on oxidative stress and NADPH oxidase regulation in phagocytes; inflammation and metabolic disease, including adipokine and AMPK signalling; epidemiology of type 2 diabetes and vitamin D deficiency in Lebanon; genetic association studies of cardiometabolic traits; antimicrobial resistance and bacterial infections; maternal knowledge, attitudes and practice toward childhood immunization.

-PhD in Physiology and Pathophysiology, with honors, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France (2008-2012). -MSc in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cell Signaling, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France (2007-2008). -Master 1 in Infectiology, Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France, with an Erasmus exchange at the Cell Biology Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2006-2007). -BS in Life Sciences, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon (2003-2006).

Dr Pia Chedid teaching and mentoring areas include a broad range of biomedical disciplines, immunology, vaccination, and specialized health seminars.

-BAU Intramural Research Grant (2025). -Grant-Research Program, CNRS-L and University of Balamand (2018-2020). -Research Grant, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (2018-2019). -PhD and Junior Lecturer Grant, French Government (2008-2012). -PhD awarded with honors, Université Denis Diderot (2012).