Ph.D. Nutrition & Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park. December 2014
M.S. Food Science & Technology Agricultural Engineering, Azad University, Science & Research Branch. Tehran, Iran.
B.S. Food Science & Technology Agricultural Engineering, Azad University, Science & Research Branch. Tehran, Iran.

Dr. Ganjavi has published research articles in a few areas. One of her areas of interest is food safety. Dr. Ganjavi studied the effects of food processing on the safety of final products. She performed research regarding the assessment of process effects on the amount of heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium in canned tuna fish. During her Ph.D., She studied one of the important applications of biotechnology in the field of food safety.  Dr. Ganjavi conducted research regarding the application of luminous bacteria as a biosensing element for the detection of acrylamide, a carcinogen chemical that can be formed in starchy food at high temperature such as French fries. In addition, her research was related to the characterization of the cellular damage mechanism of bacteria caused by acrylamide.

Her most research focus revolves around the interplay between diet and chronic diseases, covering topics such as the links between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, fruit and vegetable intake and gastric cancer, alcohol's impact on oral cavity cancers, diet's role in type 2 diabetes, and the relationship between fat and sugar consumption and obesity. Currently involved in two ongoing research projects, one focuses on assessing diet-related risk factors for type 2 diabetes among African American college students, while the other is dedicated to developing a nutrition education program for elementary school children in Baltimore.

In addition to her research pursuits, teaching has always been a great passion for Dr. Ganjavi. Prior to her tenure at Morgan State University, she had several years of experience teaching different Nutrition and Food Science courses inside and outside of the United States.

Publications

Khajeh, S., Ganjavi, M., Panahi, G., Zare, M., Zare, M., Tahami, S. M., & Razban, V. (2023). D-allose: Molecular Pathways and Therapeutic Capacity in Cancer. Current Molecular Pharmacology, 16(8), 801-810.

Ganjavi, M and Y. Martin Lo. (2023).  Identification of the Stress Fingerprints Induced by Acrylamide using Bacterial Bioluminescence, Under review.

Kimberly R. Warren, Elizabeth A. Parker, Ganjavi, M, Karen Watkins-Lewis, Sarah Clark, Suzanne Randolph Cunningham, Yolandra Hancock. Peer-led focus groups identify barriers to physical activity and healthy eating in African American adolescents from Baltimore City. Ethnicity and disease. Ethnicity & Disease journal, (accepted 2023).

Ganjavi, M, Emma Gudmundsson and Joycelyn. Peterson Diet and type2 diabetes risk factors among African American. Presented in Research Centers in Minority Institutions Consortium, National RCMI conference, April 2023

Ganjavi, M, Joycelyn Peterson. The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on eating pattern of an HBCU undergraduate students. Accepted to be presented in Twelfth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, September 2022

Ganjavi, M, Bahram Faraji, Cynthia Tucker, Jocelyn Peterson. The distributed lag between fat and sugar consumption (as a percentage of energy) and obesity rate. Presented in FNCE 2019.

Ganjavi, M, Bahram Faraji, Cynthia Tucker. The distributed lag between alcohol consumption and cancer rate. Presented in FNCE 2018.

Ganjavi, M, Bahram Faraji. “Late effect of the food consumption on colorectal cancer rate” International Journal of food Sciences and Nutrition, (2018): 1-9.

Ganjavi,M, Bahram Faraji. Trends in Per-Capita Food Consumption and Their Impact on Colorectal Cancer. Presented in IFT2018.

Ganjavi, M, Bahram Faraji. Late effect of the food consumption on colorectal cancer rate. Presented in IFT2017.

Ganjavi, M, Bahram Faraji, Cynthia Tucker. Delayed Effect of Fruits and Vegetables on Gastric Cancer. Presented in FNCE 2017.

Ganjavi, M, Y. Martin Lo. Characterization of the DNA damage mechanism of acrylamide on bioluminescent Escherichia coli carrying recA lux reporter plasmid. June 2014. Finalist in the IFT Biotechnology Division: Graduate student research paper Competition, New Orleans, LA.

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