Mobile Clinic visits rural village of Kampi Last Sunday, the Mobile Clinic travelled to the village of Kampi (Farmakas) to provide free health screenings to the local population, as part of its ongoing commitment to improving access to healthcare in rural and underserved communities. A team of 15 students provided blood pressure, glucose [...]
UDC: From diversity competence to more inclusive healthcare The Unit for Diversity Competence (UDC) in Healthcare and Healthcare Education was launched in September 2023 to operate under UNIC Health with a focus on helping healthcare professionals, faculty and students work more effectively with people from different cultural and social backgrounds. Training is one of the [...]
Fourteen UNIC Health faculty members recognised among world’s top-cited scientists UNIC Health is proud to announce that 14 of its faculty members are among the world’s top-cited scientists, according to the latest Stanford University ranking released on 7 October 2026. The annual ranking, titled ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators’, identifies the [...]
UNIC Ranked Among the World’s Top Universities in Clinical Medicine, Public Health, Business Administration and Management.
Students and faculty explore treating antenatal depression with transcranial stimulation in new study Fourth-year 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 recent publication exploring the use of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to treat depression during [...]
Medical School faculty leads introduction of pioneering Alzheimer's treatment in Cyprus George Kaponides, Clinical Professor of Neurology at the Medical School and Medical and Scientific Director of the EOKA Fighters' Melathron, was part of the first medical team in Cyprus to administer donanemab, a new treatment that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Marketed under [...]
Faculty and students publish new review on tumours of the hypothalamus and neurohypophysis 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, has recently been published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. The review examines [...]
UNIC's inclusion in the ranking reflects the University's continued investment in high-quality medical research and its growing international reputation in the health sciences.
Faculty member is senior author of University of Oxford study behind new statin risk calculator Dr Constantinos Koshiaris, Assistant Professor of Medical Statistics, is the senior author of a University of Oxford study, published last week in The Lancet Digital Health, that developed a new tool to predict an individual's risk of developing serious [...]
Faculty member contributes to international recommendations on drug-resistant fungus in children Zoi Dorothea Pana, Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology and Associate Dean for Research, recently contributed to the development of the new international recommendations on the prevention and control of the fungus Candida auris in paediatric settings. Professor Pana was selected by the Society for [...]
A key moment of the ceremony was the conferral of an honorary Doctor of Science (Medicine) degree upon internationally renowned physician and scientist Dr Eric Topol, Founder and Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence in medicine.
Embryologist Ioannis Sfontouris delivers lecture on medically assisted reproduction at UNIC Athens The Medical School’s Public Health lecture series at UNIC Athens, organised in collaboration with the Municipality of Elliniko-Argyroupoli, continued yesterday, with a lecture by Dr Ioannis Sfontouris, Associate Professor of Embryology at UNIC Athens and Director of the Embryology Laboratory at Hygeia IVF [...]
Medical School faculty leads special issue on advances in CNS tumour care Professor Dimitrios Kanakis has edited a special issue of the journal Biomedicines (MDPI) entitled Diagnosis, Pathogenesis and Treatment of CNS Tumors, bringing together international expertise on some of the most significant advances in the field of neuro-oncology. The special issue presents a diverse [...]
UNIC Athens MD student wins first prize at LifeHack Athens Hackathon 2026 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. The team was recognised for its [...]
From Sweden to Cyprus: medical students gain clinical experience and cultural insight For the past two months, five students from Örebro University in Sweden called Cyprus their home, completing part of their clinical training in Limassol. During this time, they gained valuable insight into a new healthcare environment while also embracing life on the [...]
Medical student wins first prize at Swedish Hospital Research Symposium Fourth-year graduate-entry MD student Eleanor Roy has been 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’. Eleanor, who is currently completing her clinical training [...]
Faculty member speaks at psychiatry and mental health conference in Romania Vered Aharonson, Professor of Medical Physics and Programme Lead for Digital Healthcare at the Medical School, recently took part in the 10th European Conference of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Galați, Romania. Held under the auspices of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP), the [...]
UNIC Athens lecture highlights urgent need for global pandemic preparedness The Medical School’s Public Health lecture series at UNIC Athens, organised in collaboration with the Municipality of Elliniko-Argyroupoli, continued last Tuesday with a timely and thought-provoking lecture by Professor Nikolaos Spyridis on the growing threat of emerging infectious diseases and future pandemics. In his presentation, [...]
Mobile Clinic travels to Lythrodontas to deliver specialised eye examinations Last Saturday, the Mobile Clinic travelled to the village of Lythrodontas in the Nicosia district on a special mission to provide specialised eye examinations in collaboration with ophthalmologists from Pantheo Eye Center. The visit, made possible through the Medical School’s long-standing collaboration with [...]
ENT doctors and medical students attend UNIC lecture by Harvard academic A guest lecture on hidden hearing loss and tinnitus brought together ENT doctors and medical students on Tuesday, 12 May 2026, for a discussion on one of the less visible challenges in hearing assessment. The lecture, titled Hidden hearing loss, tinnitus, and the limits [...]
More than 150 healthcare professionals attend 4th Family Medicine Conference The University of Nicosia Medical School hosted the 4th Pancyprian Family Medicine Conference last Saturday, bringing together more than 150 healthcare professionals from across Cyprus. The conference was attended by family physicians as well as doctors from a range of other specialties, reflecting the continued [...]
Medical School showcases faculty and student contributions in international scientific publication A special issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, edited by Dimitrios Kanakis, Professor of Pathology, has been republished by MDPI Books as a volume titled ‘Traumatic Brain Injury/Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease: Physics and Molecular Biology in the Genesis [...]
