UNIC research reveals strong link between chronic stress and cancer risk A recent study led by Professor Vered Aharonson, Programme Lead for Digital Healthcare at UNIC Medical School, and Dr Teddy Lazebnik, Assistant Professor at the University of Haifa's Department of Information Systems, found that people who suffer from prolonged stress are more likely [...]
Research Project Description: The Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC), a network of 22 non-profit medical facilities across North America and many outreach clinics. The ‘SHC Genomics and Precision Medicine Project’ (GPMP) is a critical step toward a genome-assisted practice of medicine that not only provides insight into the genetic aspects of paediatric diseases, but [...]
Research Project Description: The HEALTHY TEENS Research Project is an innovative initiative designed to enhance the well-being of adolescents through comprehensive research and intervention strategies. This project is structured into two main components. Narrative Reviews on Adolescent Health Interventions Objective: The first component of the project involves the development of three narrative reviews. These [...]
Research Project Description: Medication errors are a global healthcare issue partially attributed to inadequate pharmacology knowledge. Even though active learning methodologies, including virtual patients (VPs), flipped classroom (FC) and problem-based learning (PBL) have been implemented in medical education to address the limitations of passive learning, they are poorly characterized as teaching modalities in pre-clinical [...]
Research Project Description: The SHIELD project seeks to revolutionise early detection of pancreatic cancer, focusing on individuals with high heritable genetic risk. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%, primarily due to late-stage diagnosis. Consequently, 85% of PDAC cases are identified too late for curative treatment. However, early [...]
Research Project Description: More than 90% of one’s lifespan is spent in closed environments therefore indoor air pollution may pose a serious threat to health. The higher education institute (HEI) sector represents a unique environment, acting as a work environment for faculty, a learning environment, and frequently, a home environment for students. Short-and long-term [...]
Research Project Description: The use of simulation in assessments of clinical competence, such as Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), provides an opportunity for more realistic assessment of the candidate’s clinical skills while examining real clinical features. The project proposed in this proposal involves the development of a stethoscope device that plays pre-selected (ab)normal auscultation [...]
Research Project Description: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative condition that afflicts many, particularly the elderly, with its negative societal impact increasing fast due to aging populations. While cognitive impairment is the main feature of AD, motor deficits are also widely reported. Recent reviews of the field indicate that mechanistic studies elucidating the [...]
Research Project Description: The revised proposal concentrates on developing the hardware and software pipeline that can be incorporated as part of a closed-loop system for real-time music manipulation in a clinical setting. The envisaged future system will be an automated intervention that uses real-time modification of musical features in a way that achieves desired [...]
Research Project Description: The key to building high-quality healthcare lies with good medical leadership. Physicians play a critical role in the healthcare team and medical graduates are expected to “provide leadership skills that enhance team functioning, the learning environment, and/or the healthcare delivery system”, as described by The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). [...]
Research Project Description: Breast cancer (BC) survival rates are increasing globally; thereby Quality of Life (QoL) is pivotal for Breast Cancer Survivors (BCS). Adherence to the nine World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) recommendations which mainly focus on healthy eating and physical activity has a positive impact on long-term health outcomes [...]
Research Project Description: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health problem, as it affects 10% of the global population and kills millions of patients every year. One of the major barriers for the development of efficient treatments for CKD, is the inability of existing experimental systems to effectively model the complex structure and [...]
Research Project Description: As described above, the original study proposed (a) the development of a multistage psychoeducational nutritional intervention to reduce exposure to obesogenic factors from as early as the beginning of pregnancy through early infancy in 500 mother-infant dyads and (b) the assessment of the effect of this intervention in programming a child’s [...]
Research Project Description: Reducing medication errors, which compromise patient safety and increase healthcare costs, remains a significant challenge. An important contributor to medication errors is irrational prescribing, which may stem from a poor understanding of pharmacology. It remains a challenge for educators to prepare medical students to become effective and safe prescribers. Problem-based learning [...]
Research Project Description: The last few years there is a turn in the pedagogical system, from a teacher-centered to a student-centered approach. Didactic techniques like Problem Based Learning (PBL) have dramatically improved not only students’ knowledge and understanding but also their interest and motivation. Research has shown that PBL-based Medical Curricula promotes deep learning, [...]
Research Project Description: Accumulating evidence suggests that the gut microbiome plays a critical role in the health and disease of ruminants, in milk production and its quality, and it has been related with greenhouse gasses emissions from dairy farms. On the other hand, studies have shown that air pollution can have disruptive effects on [...]
Research Project Description: The principal aim of the research proposal is the investigation of the effects of operation of electrical power stations in Cyprus on air quality, the nearby marine environment and on the health of residents of communities in the vicinity of electrical power stations. The Medical School research team will build on [...]
Research Project Description: The gut microbiome has various roles in health and disease with those relevant to the function of the host immune system featuring prominently. Recent studies have brought forth hypotheses linking microbiome and infectious diseases. Using a combination of fieldwork, epidemiological data collection, molecular biology and bioinformatic analyses, this research project will [...]
Research Project Description: The ViR-MEd project aims to revolutionize medical education by incorporating Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This innovative approach seeks to enhance clinical communication training by creating immersive environments where medical students can practice real-life scenarios with virtual patients powered by AI, including ChatGPT. These simulations allow students to [...]
Research Project Description: The project aims to construct and pilot assistive care technology for older people. As the demographic old-age (people aged ≥ 65) dependency ratio is projected to increase from 27.8% to 50.1% in the EU until 2060, the demand for services for older adults will face increasing pressure in Europe. Old age [...]
Research Project Description: Medication adherence is defined as the extent that the medication taken reflects prescribed intention. Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) published a guide advising to develop novel strategies in order to improve medication adherence. The objective of this project is to design, develop and promote a web platform and smartphone application [...]
Research Project Description:‘Snow-IoT’ aims to engage in continuous environmental monitoring and in providing to the general public awareness of environmental dangers regarding health and sustainable living, and related to their habitat environment. ‘Snow-IoT’ utilizes data from IoT sensors as well as aggregated statistics from healthcare providers in order to better plan IoT sensor installation, provide [...]
