COMPETITIONS

A team of medical students – Abdullah Ayesh, Elyaa Saleh, Jessica AL-Rabadi and Yasmeen Yousef – won first place at this year’s EIT Health i-Days Nicosia innovation competition and will represent Cyprus at the i-Days 2025 European finals on 27–28 November 2025 in Paris. (Read more).

This continues UNIC Medical School’s strong performance in the competition. Last year, three of our students – Karthikayini Gomathinayagam, Ron Poon, Alma Sato – claimed both 1^st Place and the Public Choice Award at the European finals in Budapest, following their national victory in Cyprus (Read more).

Finally, a team of three medical students – Aikaterini Katramadou, Maria Tzifa and Dimitris Vlachos – were the winners of Junior Achievement’s StartUp 2025 Programme and successfully represented Cyprus at the Gen-E 2025 European Entrepreneurship Festival in Athens this past July (Read more).

CONFERENCES

Two medical students, Sayed Shah and Ahmad Sandouka, participated in the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) annual meeting in Philadelphia, USA. Their research posters were selected from thousands of applications submitted from around the world (Read more).

Meanwhile recent medical graduate Naresh Sinnathamby and medical student Aliraza Rajabali represented the Medical School at the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. They presented the University’s Mobile Clinic initiative to an international audience of medical educators, healthcare professionals and public-health experts (Read more).

At the same conference, recent graduates Ismini Kyriacou, Virginia Constantinou and Irene Papapetrou presented a collaborative study, ‘Should teachers entertain? Views and attitudes of students and faculty in two medical programmes in Cyprus and Sweden’ (Read more).

Furthermore, two medical students, Alexis Tripodis and Aswinshankar Sivalingam, took part in an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on personal healthcare data management at the University of Salerno, Italy, delivered under the NEOLAiA alliance (Read more).

Finally, PhD student Berkem Dikengil, presented his research titled ‘The Brain on the Witness Stand’ at the 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) in Athens, Greece. (Read more).

PLACEMENTS/EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES/INTERNSHIPS

Four medical students completed a 10-week exchange programme at Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, a NEOLAiA alliance member. Emma Nordahl, May Hajeir, Yllina Zekaj, and Weaam Al-Hoqani undertook their gynaecology and paediatrics placements in this integrated university hospital environment (Read more).

Meanwhile, three veterinary students – Dimitra Kavalierou, Margarita Demetriou and Felicia Pettersen – completed internships at Vet Ex Machina, a Cyprus-based preclinical research company (Read more).

As part of the Medical School’s agreement with the Sorbonne University Faculty of Medicine, student Isabella Mae Angelopoulou spent the summer working in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of Armand Trousseau Hospital in Paris (Read more).

Also, medical student Natalya Loutzis, completed a seven-week research placement at the University of Lausanne through their competitive Summer Undergraduate Research Programme, working on neuroscience research that bridges laboratory science and clinical medicine (Read more).