Professor Peter Karayiannis participated in the Public Health Day organised by the Cyprus University of Technology and the Endocrine Society of Cyprus on 3 October 2019 with a talk on ‘The Flaviviridae family of viruses and West Nile virus. Virology and prevalence’.


Professor Aleksandar Jovanovic is the co-author of two papers:


Professor Panagiotis Karanis is the co-author of the following papers:


Professor Vassilis G. Hadjianastassiou is a chapter author of the book The History of the First Kidney Transplantation – a European Overview, edited by Robert Langer,  Press and Multimedia Studio Budapest, 2019,  eISBN 978-963-331-473-9I


Assistant Professor Nicoletta Nicolaou is the co-author of A systematic review of haemodynamic stability of closed-loop anaesthesia systems, Minerva Anestesiologica, 28 Oct 2019.

In addition, Dr Nicolaou has been appointed as a country representative and member of the management committee for the COST Action CA18106 – The neural architecture of consciousness. The combined management committee meeting and working group meeting was held last November in Zagreb, Croatia. Dr Nicolaou together with Dr Margarita Zachariou, the second country representative from the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, attended the two-day meeting last November in Zagreb, Croatia. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for networking and discussion and for developing future research proposals in the field of consciousness and signal processing for consciousness applications, as well as outlining a road map for the specific COST action working group. Further networking was also possible in a more relaxed setting during a “rainy” walking tour of beautiful Zagreb followed by dinner.

Furthermore, Dr Nicolaou has been appointed as a member of the Health sub-committee of the Parallel Parliament on Research, Innovation and Digital Government. Parallel Parliament is an initiative by the President of the Cyprus House of Representatives, aiming at fostering and further developing an interactive relationship and transparency between the House of Representatives and citizens.  Dr Nicolaou along with other academics, entrepreneurs, researchers and scientists, attended the inauguration and meeting of the Joint Central Coordinating Committee of the Parallel Parliament last December held at the House of Representatives.