Medical School Faculty and Students publish meta-analysis on heart surgery risks A meta-analysis led by Clinical Assistant Professor George Bazoukis has found that patients with atrial fibrillation face a significantly higher risk of death when undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The study features the research contributions of fourth-year graduate-entry MD students Leigh Cohen [...]
Mobile Clinic brings health services to Greek-Cypriot refugee community in Kamares As part of the Medical School's commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations, the Mobile Clinic visited the Greek-Cypriot refugee settlement in Kamares on Sunday, 9 November. Throughout the day, 20 medical students transformed the Apostolos Varnavas Churchyard into a welcoming [...]
Medical School students win EIT Health i-Days Nicosia 2025 A team of MD Year 6 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. The annual two-day programme organised by Junior Achievement Cyprus with the support of EIT Health [...]
Grand rounds commence at Limassol General Hospital The inaugural grand round presentation at Limassol General Hospital (LGH) was delivered on 16 October by final-year MD student Abdul Rahman Nabil Awad Iweir, under the supervision of Dr Andreas Kostis, Curriculum Lead for Geriatrics and Deputy Clinical Lead for Internal Medicine at LGH. Grand rounds are [...]
As part of its ongoing commitment to promoting health literacy, the Medical School carried out a project in collaboration with GC School of Careers in Nicosia to raise awareness among adolescents on key public health topics. Initiated by Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology Zoi Dorothea Pana, the project aimed to enhance awareness on infection control, [...]
Medical School collaborates with GC School of Careers to promote health literacy among adolescents As part of its ongoing commitment to promoting health literacy, the Medical School carried out a project in collaboration with GC School of Careers in Nicosia to raise awareness among adolescents on key public health topics. Initiated by Professor of [...]
UNIC Athens - HAHE Accreditation for 8 Programmes Set to welcome its first student cohort on 3 November 2025 University of Nicosia - UNIC Athens has received official accreditation from the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education (HAHE) for eight undergraduate degree programmes, and will welcome its first student cohort on Monday, November 3rd, 2025. [...]
Mobile Clinic continues initiative to provide free health tests to Greek-Cypriot refugees in Larnaka On Sunday, 26 October 2025, a team of 19 medical students from various cohorts transformed the Ayia Thekla Churchyard in the Agioi Anargyroi refugee settlement into a fully functioning community health station, providing essential health checks to Greek-Cypriot refugees [...]
University of Nicosia in the World’s Top 501–600 Universities in THE World University Rankings 2026 The University Ranks 1st for Research Quality Amongst the Greek and Cypriot Universities The University of Nicosia (UNIC) has once again been recognised among the world’s leading universities, reaffirming its position as a global centre of excellence in higher education and research. [...]
Nine UNIC Health faculty recognized among world’s top-cited scientists UNIC Health is proud to announce that nine of its faculty members are among the world’s top-cited scientists, according to a ranking compiled by Stanford University. The yearly ranking titled ‘Science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators’ lists the world’s most influential scientists based on [...]
22 October 2025 The Medical School was one of the organisers of the EU’s first Simulation & Practical Onsite Training in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) with a focus on Paediatric Settings. The event took place in Athens over the weekend of 4-5 October 2025. The workshop was a collaborative initiative among the UNIC [...]
21 October 2025 UNIC Health is proud to announce that nine of its faculty members are among the world's top-cited scientists, according to a ranking compiled by Stanford University. The yearly ranking titled 'Science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators' lists the world's most influential scientists based on their citation impact. The database evaluates [...]
October 2025 The University of Nicosia Medical School, the Committee for the Supervision and Protection of the Rights of Mental Health Patients, and the Cyprus Psychiatric Society jointly organised a conference titled: 'Access to Mental Health Services for People Exposed to Disasters and Other Emergencies' on Saturday, 11 October 2025 at the UNESCO Amphitheatre, [...]
October 2025 On Sunday, 12 October 2025, the courtyard of Ayios Eleftherios Church in the Greek-Cypriot refugee settlement Tsiakkilero in Larnaka was transformed into a health station, thanks to the efforts of 20 medical student volunteers. Under the supervision of Clinical Assistant Professor Sotiris Dimosthenous, the Mobile Clinic offered free blood pressure, glucose, spirometry [...]
08 October 2025 As part of the University of Nicosia Medical School’s agreement with the Sorbonne University Faculty of Medicine, MD Year 6 student Isabella Mae Angelopoulou spent the summer working in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of Armand Trousseau Hospital in Paris. Isabella describes this experience as incredibly rewarding but also very intense [...]
06 October 2025 University of Nicosia Medical School second-year student Natalya Loutzis has 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. Natalya was one of only 15 students selected internationally for the fully-funded programme, [...]
24 September 2025 The University of Nicosia’s Zebrafish Laboratory recently began full scale operations. Last week, the laboratory team hosted an information session for University of Nicosia faculty and partners to outline the facility’s research goals and explore opportunities for collaboration. Led by Associate Professor Konstantinos Voskarides and Assistant Professor Annita Achilleos, the facility [...]
16 September 2025 Jesse Zulberg recently returned from Tanzania where he spent two months volunteering with HealthMission Africa, an experience that left a lasting impact on his approach to medicine. The final-year MD student worked in rural areas where healthcare resources are limited, giving him new perspective on medical practice. ‘Growing up in South [...]
11 August 2025 On 2 and 3 July, the University of Nicosia Medical School hosted the kick-off meeting for HIVE, a €4 million Horizon Europe research project coordinated by UNIC and involving 15 international partners. The initiative, officially titled 'Enhancing Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) management for HIV populations through Implementation research, evidence-based interventions, and [...]
August 2025 Last March, four MD5 students from the University of Nicosia Medical School completed a 10-week exchange programme at Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, a NEOLAiA alliance member. Emma Nordahl from Norway, May Hajeir from Jordan, Yllina Zekaj from Kosovo, and Weaam Al-Hoqani from Oman undertook their gynaecology and paediatrics placements in this [...]
4 August 2025 The University of Nicosia Medical School has secured a €119,756 grant from the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation for a project investigating virtual patients in pre-clinical pharmacology education. The 'PharmaViP' project will run from May 2025 to April 2027. Dr Soulla Nicolaou, project coordinator, will lead the research team comprising Prof [...]
24 July 2025 Two Medical School students, Alexis Tripodis (Year 4, pictured right) and Aswinshankar Sivalingam (Year 3, centre), have recently returned from an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on personal healthcare data management at the University of Salerno, Italy, delivered under the NEOLAiA alliance. They joined peers from eight European universities on the [...]
