Research

Veterinary School’s participation in COST Action event 30 October 2024 Drs Eleni Gentekaki and Daphne Mavrides recently represented our Veterinary School at the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action event in Crete, focusing on the gut microbe Blastocystis. This event is part of the ‘Blastocystis under One Health’ COST Action, which [...]

16 September 2024 A study from the School of Veterinary Medicine has identified potential new treatments for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a fatal disease affecting cats. Published in the scientific journal Veterinary Sciences, the research, led by faculty members Drs Manos Vlasiou, Georgios Nikolaou, Kyriakos Spanoudes, and Daphne Mavrides, explores the use of vitamin [...]

10 July 2024 The study titled 'Sero-molecular survey and associated risk factors of equine piroplasmosis in purebred Menorcan horses' commenced last week in Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Led by Dr Sergi Olvera-Maneu, Assistant Professor at UNIC’s School of Veterinary Medicine, and his team, this research focuses on equine piroplasmosis, an infectious disease caused by [...]

30 November 2023 UNIC Health announces a significant achievement through the combined efforts of our Veterinary and Medical School faculty. Our successful participation in the Small Infrastructure Call of the Research Promotion Foundation has resulted in a research award of approximately €700,000. This funding will be instrumental in establishing a first of its kind [...]

Veterinary School joins “Blastocystis under One Health” event in Singapore 13 July 2023 Clinical Assistant Professor Daphne Mavrides represented the Veterinary School at the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action event, focused on Blastocystis, which took place at the National University of Singapore. COST implements research and innovation funded programmes known [...]

Professor Stavros Malas and Clinical Associate Professor Daphne Mavrides are two of the authors of a recent study published in Microorganisms  entitled ‘High Occurrence of Zoonotic Subtypes of Cryptosporidium parvum in Cypriot Dairy Farms.’ Professor Malas said “This is the first study to investigate Cryptosporidium occurrences in the dairy farms of Cyprus. Cryptosporidium is a parasite that causes a [...]

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 University of Nicosia (UNIC) Medical School [...]