Dr Eleni-Kyriaki Vetsika

Medical School
Basic and Clinical Sciences

Eleni-Kyriaki Vetsika is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Nicosia Medical School Athens.

Dr. Vetsika holds a BSc (Honors) in Biochemistry & Applied Molecular Biology and an MPhil in Biomolecular Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, and a PhD in Pharmacology from Queen Mary University of London, Department of Bone & Joint Research Unit, St Bartholomew’s & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, William Harvey Institute, UK. She gained expertise in immune virology, translational immuno-oncology, and small extracellular vesicles during her postdoctoral research at Imperial College Medical School in London, the Medical School of University of Crete, the Medical School of University of Thessaly, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In 2018, she was appointed Scientific Head of the Single-Cell Proteomics Unit at pMedGR: The Greek Research Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine, at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Her research focuses on translational and precision medicine, particularly through the discovery of prognostic and predictive biomarkers for patient stratification, early diagnosis, prognosis, treatment monitoring, and therapy response in cancer, autoimmune, and autoinflammatory diseases. She employs single-cell technologies and liquid biopsy approaches, including small extracellular vesicles and peripheral blood, to develop non-invasive diagnostics, enable real-time disease monitoring, and advance precision medicine to improve patient clinical outcomes and drug discovery.