Thursday, 28 April 2022 On 17 April 2022 the Medical School Mobile Clinic travelled to the village of Lythrodontas in the district of Nicosia. Seventeen medical student volunteers under the guidance of Doctors Andrea Charalambous and Carolina Kitromelides, performed blood pressure measurements and glucose tests to more than 100 people. "For many of us, [...]
To be awarded to an individual with an outstanding contribution to the field of haemoglobinopathies. The University of Nicosia (UNIC) Medical School and the Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) jointly award, on a biennial basis, the ‘Panos Englezos Prize’, to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in one or more of the [...]
The 2022 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings rank UNIC #179 in the list of the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger The 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings rank the University of Nicosia (UNIC) number 179 in the world among the universities that are 50 years old [...]
5 February 2022 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme (KA203 Strategic Partnerships for higher education). The main aim of EmpathyInHealth is to develop a curriculum for empathetic [...]
January 2022 A recent article in the journal Nature Communications offers insights into the complexity of vitamin B12, or cobalamin, diseases while revealing potential therapeutic avenues for the patients suffering from this family of disease. The authors of the article, including Medical School’s Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology and Genetics Dr Annita Achilleos, studied [...]
January 2022 A newly published article in Current Biology demonstrates that sheep can be a powerful animal model for brain function that can bridge the translational gap between rodents and primates. One of the authors of the article, Senior Research Associate in Neuroscience at the UNIC Medical School, Dr Nikolas Perentos [...]
Monday, 10 January 2022 The University of Nicosia (UNIC) Medical School and the Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) have recently signed an agreement for the establishment of the ‘TIF Chair in Haematology/Red Blood Cell Diseases’ at the Medical School. John Porter, Professor of Haematology and Consultant Haematologist at the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and Head [...]
The 14th European Public Health (EPH) conference took place virtually on 10-12 November 2021. This year, the conference theme was “Public health futures in a changing world”. At the conference, two faculty members of the Department of Primary Care and Population Health were invited, through a competitive peer-reviewed abstract submission and selection process, to present the [...]
Monday, 29 November 2021 Sunday, 28 November 2021 marked the restart of the Mobile Clinic expeditions following almost two years of inactivity due to COVID-19. The first expedition took place at Yeri Municipality in the outskirts of Nicosia. Fourteen student volunteers performed blood pressure measurements and glucose tests to the local population under the [...]
Wednesday, 03 November 2021 The PhD programme of the Medical School announces six research projects in the fields of Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Engineering, Epidemiology, and Epidemiology and Public Health. Full and partial scholarship schemes are available for four of these projects. For detailed information click HERE
The 2022 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Rankings rank UNIC #122, underscoring the University’s upward trajectory in the major rankings The 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies Rankings rank the University of Nicosia (UNIC) number 122 among the universities in the countries or regions classified by the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE Group as “advanced emerging”, [...]
Professor Dimitris Drikakis joined the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports The University of Nicosia congratulates Professor Dimitris Drikakis for joining the Editorial Board of the prestigious journal Nature Scientific Reports. Nature Scientific Reports is an open access journal publishing original research from across all areas of the natural sciences, medicine, and engineering. As the sixth most-cited journal in the [...]
According to Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, released on 2 September 2021, reaffirms the University of Nicosia’s (UNIC) global standing, ranking it among the Top 601-800 universities in the world. Correspondingly, UNIC ranks among the Top 250 universities in the European Union. The THE World University [...]
Friday, 27 August 2021 In a statement released earlier this month, the Medical School Careers & Alumni Office reported that 99.8% of Medical School graduates between 2015 and 2021 or 599 out of 600 have been offered positions at over 200 medical centres around the world for residency training, internships, and research. Medical [...]
August 2021 Global consortium representing 27 institutions compared mortality in the previous five years to deaths between January and August 2020. They found that some countries showed excess all-cause mortality, while other nations had minimal or even decreased excess mortality. Since the earliest weeks following the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, it has been a challenge to [...]
19 July 2021 A new study on paediatric and adolescent thyroid cancer in Cyprus, by UNIC Medical School Professor of Paediatric Oncology/Haematology Loizos Loizou and his scientific team, is published in the latest online edition of the Elsevier journal Cancer Epidemiology. It includes patients aged 0–19 years who were diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the [...]
10 July 2021 It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our dear colleague and friend Professor Peter Kopelman at the age of 70. Peter entered palliative care last week following a battle with leukaemia and passed away yesterday morning at The Royal London Hospital surrounded by his beloved wife Susan and [...]
29 June 2021 Latest study by Medical School Clinical Professor of Cardiology Dinos Missouris et al. published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine earlier this month, concludes that a machine learning model using routine laboratory parameters can detect atypical and asymptomatic presentations of Covid-19 and might be an adjunct to existing screening measures. [...]
UNIC joins the list of the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger, according to the 2021 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings The 2021 results of the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings rank the University of Nicosia (UNIC) among the Top 251-300 universities in the world that are 50 years old or younger. [...]
24 June 2021 A Joint Graduation Ceremony took place on Thursday 23 June 2021 at the UNIC Open Amphitheatre in Nicosia. The Joint Ceremony combined two years of Medical School graduates, the 2020 and 2021 classes, due to cancellation of ceremonial events last year related to the global pandemic. The guest of honour [...]
Thursday, 6 May 2021 The European Commission appointed yesterday Mr Christos Stylianides as a European Union Special Envoy for promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the European Union. Mr Stylianides, a faculty member in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health, is the former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management [...]
The University’s top-class research output was reaffirmed by the annual Stanford University list of top 100,000 scientists worldwide. Eight University of Nicosia academics are included on the annual list of 100,000 top-scientists worldwide and, correspondingly, in the top 2% of scientists in their field, according to a team of researchers at Stanford University in the [...]
