UNIC Health students excel locally and globally

Our students proudly represented the University at international conferences and competitions, co-authoring research publications with faculty members, presenting their work to global audiences, and contributing to community outreach and interprofessional learning (IPL) initiatives.

COMPETITIONS/DISTINCTIONS

  • Graduate-entry medical student Eleanor Roy was awarded first prize at the Swedish Hospital Research Symposium for her poster, ‘Ambient Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Morbidity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Acute and Long-Term Exposure’ (read more).
  • UNIC Athens Medical School student Vasileios Kassos was part of the award-winning team that secured First Prize at the LifeHack Athens Hackathon 2026, held within the Panathenea Festival, one of Greece’s leading events for science and technology (read more).

CONFERENCES

  • Medical students Chirayu Singhvi, Maryam Ejaz and Sasani Njapha led the organisation of the 3rd Student-Led Conference at the Medical School. Titled ‘Where Tradition Meets Innovation’, the conference brought together students from nine different student societies and clubs, as well as healthcare professionals, for a full day of talks in the morning and hands-on workshops in the afternoon (read more).
  • The 2026 UNIC Health Student Research Conference was successfully held on Wednesday, 18 March 2026, at the Nicosia campus, bringing together students and faculty in a celebration of research, innovation, and academic engagement (read more).
  • On Friday, 13 February 2026, UNIC medical students at Paphos General Hospital organised the third annual, multi-thematic clinical conference, bringing together senior students for a day of knowledge sharing and hands-on skill development (read more).
  • MD student Maria Antonia Kalatta presented a research poster at ESCMID Global, the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, in Munich, Germany, held from 17-21 April 2026 (read more).
  • Students from the UNIC Medical School received awards for their oral and poster presentations at the Pantheo Annual Congress 2026, held in Limassol from 24 to 26 April (read more).
  • Dr Khalid Ali Mohammed Al Kamzari, an MD graduate, attended the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) World Conference held in Tunis from 11 to 14 June 2026 (read more).

PUBLICATIONS

  • A review highlighting the therapeutic promise of zalsupindole, led by graduate-entry medical student Miguel Salfiti, with the support of Dr George Mikellides, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UNIC’s Medical School and Dr Marios Kyriazis, Scientific Director of the National Gerontology Centre, was published in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience, issued by the American Chemical Society (ACS) (read more).
  • Two graduate-entry medical students, Diana Saabneh and Ali Azam Ali Zaher, co-authored a case study on combined treatments for treatment-resistant depression, published in the international journal Psychiatria Danubina. (Read more)
  • Recent MD graduates from the University of Nicosia and Örebro University, together with faculty from both medical schools, co-authored a cross-border study published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Medical Education (read more).
  • Medical School faculty and students published a study on a promising approach to Alzheimer’s disease research that examines how brain activity and heart function can be studied together to support earlier detection and monitoring (read more).
  • Medical students of the graduate-entry programme, Nirmal Pandit, Yahya Wehbeh, and Omar Itani, under the supervision of Professor Dimitrios N. Kanakis, published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences (read more).
  • MD students Aikaterini Katramadou and Eva Sonja Bender 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 (read more).
  • Nine medical students undertaking placements at Paphos General Hospital published work in the Cyprus Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, the official journal of the Cyprus Society of Cardiology, under the supervision of Clinical Professor Joseph Moutiris (read more).
  • MD student Maria Antonia Kalatta presented a research poster at ESCMID Global, the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, in Munich, Germany (read more).
  • A special issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, edited by Dimitrios Kanakis, Professor of Pathology, has been republished by MDPI Books, with contributions from fourth-year UNIC medical students Aikaterini Katramadou and Eva Sonja Bender (read more).
  • A paper led by graduate-entry MD students Alexia Kesta, Omar Itani and Yahya Wehbeh, in collaboration with Dr Dimitrios Kanakis, Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. The review examines tumours of the posterior pituitary and hypothalamus of the brain, highlighting the diagnostic challenges they present due to their similarities to pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (read more).
  • Graduate-entry MD students, Eleanor Roy and Amir Arshia Emam Jomeh, alongside Georgios Mikellides, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, contributed to a publication exploring the use of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to treat depression during pregnancy (read more).
  • Veterinary student Sotiris Chrysanthopoulos has co-authored a scientific article published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Molecular Sciences, in collaboration with Dr Konstantinos V. Arsenopoulos, Associate Professor of Cattle and Herd Medicine at the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr Elias Papadopoulos of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (read more).

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

  • Two medical students from the MD graduate-entry programme (GEMD) delivered a culturally sensitive, age-appropriate sexual health educational workshop in Arabic for refugee children at a Nicosia shelter, demonstrating the practical application of medical education in community service (read more).