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 [...]
Ranking #1 in Cyprus and Greece and Top 15 in the EU in this core area in the expanded 2021 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which recognises universities across the world for their social and economic impact. The 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, released on 21 April 2021, rank the University of Nicosia (UNIC) as the [...]
UNIC joins UCY and CUT on this list, in yet another testament to the tremendous development of the university field in Cyprus, according to the 2021 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings The 2021 results of the Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies Rankings rank the University of Nicosia (UNIC) among the Top 201-250 universities in the countries [...]
On 26 February 2021, the European Kidney Health Alliance launched a call to action for EU leaders to improve Chronic Kidney Diseases (CKD) prevention, treatment and care in the aftermath of COVID-19. This call to action, which has been endorsed by 89 European stakeholders, including the University of Nicosia Medical School, urges policy makers to include [...]
Medical School Professor Drikakis and Associate Professor Dbouk reach quintet of COVID-19 related research. According to their recent paper published in Physics of Fluids on 2 February 2021, temperature, humidity, and wind are typically overlooked key epidemiological parameters The “second wave” of the coronavirus pandemic has placed much blame on a lack of appropriate safety [...]
Placing #126 in the Emerging Europe and Central Asia Region, in which over 3,300 universities operate, according to the QS World University Rankings 2021 The 2021 “QS World University Rankings: EECA”, released on 16 December 2020, once again rank the University of Nicosia (UNIC) as one of the top 4% of universities in the region, [...]
Wednesday, 9 December 2020 On 9 December 2010, at a ceremony held at the UNESCO amphitheatre on the University of Nicosia (UNIC) campus, the UNIC Medical School was launched with the announcement of the academic partnership between UNIC and St George’s, University of London (SGUL), to offer the SGUL MBBS degree to local and international [...]
17 November 2020 The early implementation of public health interventions, including non-pharmaceutical measures and active contact tracing with extensive and targeted testing, proved to be a valuable combination of strategies to effectively control the first wave of COVID-19 outbreak between March and May 2020 in the Republic of Cyprus. These were the main conclusions [...]
September 2020 The University of Nicosia Medical School is pleased to announce the launch of the research project 'The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of adolescents in Cyprus (COVID Nine-TEEN Health).' The researchers at the University of Nicosia Medical School who are involved in this study are: Prof Paola Nicolaides, Dr [...]
