3 June 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 [...]
Does the administration of probiotics to patients with mild Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) reduce neuroinflammation, improve cognitive functioning and positively affect neurophysiological measures? The Alzheimer’s Association has recently awarded Dr Nicoletta Nicolaou an Alzheimer's Association Research Grant – New to the Field to study the effect of probiotics in patients with mild AD. The [...]
22 March 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 [...]
ABC News, one of the leading news media in Australia, recently published an article titled ‘Life. Death. COVID-19’ to mark two years since the first reported COVID-19 death in the country. While acknowledging that thousands of Australians have already lost their lives to COVID-19, the article presents a balanced debate on how much death [...]
26 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Junior Achievement Cyprus in collaboration with eight stakeholders: The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Karaiskakio Foundation, Cyprus Oncology Society, Cyprus Federation of Patients’ Associations, Cocoon Creations, IDEA, Cyprus Seeds and CYENS Centre of Excellence, has launched for the first time in Cyprus the ‘Beyond Pre-Accelerator Programme’ which will [...]
15 November 2021 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 [...]
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
October 2021 Professor of Surgery Christos Georgalas is the co-author of a new book titled ‘Frontal Sinus: Surgical Approaches and Controversies.’ The book is a complete guide to frontal sinus surgery and it covers surgical anatomy and radiology, frontal-specific pathology, surgical techniques, technical advancements, and controversies. In his remarks about the book, renowned [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The University of Nicosia Medical School places research at the core of its academic activities and is committed to the promotion of medical research for the benefit of both the national and international community. We are currently seeking a highly motivated Post-doctoral Research Fellow with relevant academic qualifications and research experience in the field of [...]
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 [...]
Dr Charalambous, a senior post-doctoral researcher in neuroscience, has successfully applied and received a mobile Electromyography (EMG) system via the Mobile Equipment Donation Initiative from the De Luca Foundation. The De Luca Foundation is a private charitable organisation, whose financial resources are dedicated to serve the Biomechanics Research Community through R&D grants, travel grants [...]
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 [...]
In their paper published in Physics of Fluids on 26 January 2021, Medical School Professor Dimitrios Drikakis and Dr Talib Dbouk, show that while air purifiers would be expected to help, they may actually increase the spread of airborne viruses. Air quality in small spaces can quickly degrade without ventilation. However, adding ventilation will increase the [...]
