Dr Maria Christofidou

Maria Christofidou holds a BSc on Applied Biology from Northumbria University at Newcastle (2004), an MSc on Medical Genetics from Glasgow University (2005) and a PhD on Genetics/Genomic Epidemiology from the University of Manchester (2010). She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Nicosia since 2011. Her teaching involves a wide range of biology related subjects including basic and advanced biology, genetics and research methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Since 2013 she has been a PBL and personal tutor at the St. George’s University of London Medical program delivered in Cyprus by the University of Nicosia Medical School. Her research interests include cancer genetics, epidemiology, genomic epidemiology, nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics.