The review focuses on the combined use of EEG and heart rate variability as an integrated biomarker framework for Alzheimer’s disease, with findings suggesting that brain-heart coupling may offer improved sensitivity in identifying early cognitive decline.
Medical students of the graduate-entry programme, Nirmal Pandit, Yahya Wehbeh, and Omar Itani, under the supervision of Professor Dimitrios N. Kanakis, have recently published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Fourth-year MD students Aikaterini Katramadou and Eva Sonja Bender have co authored a review article on traumatic brain injury (TBI)/chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and Alzheimer's disease, under the supervision of Professor Dimitrios N. Kanakis.
This partnership will focus on coordinated research, faculty and student collaboration, and innovation across cutting-edge science, engineering and artificial intelligence disciplines.
The authors summarise current evidence on the gut–brain axis, describing how intestinal microorganisms and their metabolites affect immune regulation, inflammatory pathways, and the tumour microenvironment in glioblastoma. They discuss how changes in gut microbiota composition (dysbiosis) may contribute to the disease’s highly immunosuppressive environment and resistance to treatment.
The review analyses studies published up to the end of 2020, drawing from MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and European surveillance systems.
The GREEN-TRIALS project aims to create a set of training materials to introduce practical ways to embed environmental sustainability into academic clinical research. These resources will be complemented by teachers’ guides and an online learning platform.
The symposium featured four keynote speakers and thirteen Harvard master’s students, who presented methodologies, emerging data, and trends in environmental health research across diverse geographical and socio-environmental settings.
The study examines how large-scale urban greening can influence local airflow and heat transport in a dense metropolitan environment, with a focus on Athens, including the impact of the greening of Ellinikon on the local microclimate.
The guideline provides structured, evidence based recommendations to support clinicians and researchers in the assessment and management of asymptomatic/oligosymptomatic hyperCKemia, with the aim of improving consistency and clarity in day to day practice.
The study, titled ‘NR6A1 is essential for neural crest cell specification, formation and survival’ explores the formation of neural crest cells (NCC), a migratory progenitor cell population unique to vertebrate embryos that helps in the development of many organs and tissues, including parts of the face, nerves, and heart.
The volume comprises 14 scholarly articles focusing on the identification of novel biomarkers, the development of innovative diagnostic techniques, and the application of state-of-the-art methodologies for brain tumour detection and diagnosis.
A recent scientific review by Panagiotis Karanis, Professor of Anatomy at the UNIC Medical School, in collaboration with researchers from Greece and Turkey, highlights how climate change is creating compounded challenges for livestock systems in the Mediterranean.
The two students worked with Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UNIC Medical School, George Mikellides, to document a case involving the combination of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and ketamine therapy.
The researchers surveyed 1,318 participants from over 30 countries, collecting data on familial cancer history, stress factors, and self-reported cancer status. Using machine learning and causal modelling, they explored connections between chronic psychological stress and cancer occurrences.
UNIC professor publishes leading textbook on safe childbirth The third edition of ‘Best Practice in Labour and Delivery’, edited by Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Nicosia Medical [...]
The Medical School participates in a €400,000 Erasmus+ grant for the Virtual Realities in Medical Education (ViR-MEd) project. The project is led by Dr Achilleas Pavlou, with team members Professors Alexia Papageorgiou, Stelios Georgiades, and Dr Panagiota Andreou.
University of Nicosia researchers Dbouk and Drikakis reach quintet of COVID-19 related research. According to their latest paper in Physics of Fluids, temperature, humidity, and wind are typically overlooked key epidemiological parameters
University of Nicosia researchers Dbouk and Drikakis return with important input as relates to COVID-19 and confined spaces. According to their latest paper in Physics of Fluids, adding ventilation increases the rate at which potentially infected air can circulate in compact spaces.
