According to the 2021 World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking list published by Stanford University (Version 3, August 2021), Medical School Professors Andrew Nicolaides, Michael Davidson, Dimitris Drikakis, and Christos Georgalas are among the top 2% most widely cited scientists in various disciplines. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 180,000 researchers from the more than 8 million scientists to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields considered.
The Medical School’s research strategy espouses the holistic concept of One Health which emphasizes the relationship between the health of humans and animals within a healthy, sustainable environment and promotes the conduct of clinical, epidemiological, basic science and social science research. Our research focus lies in areas of brain health and disease, cancer biology and oncology, regenerative medicine and genetics, infectious diseases, medical education, clinical communication and health psychology, medical physics and emerging technologies, environmental health, biostatistics and research methodology, public health policy, and clinical and primary care research.