Projects

The Brain Research and Integrative Neuroscience Network for COVID-19 (BRAINN) will advance the research and innovation capacity of the University of Cyprus (UCY) as indicated in the U+2018Widening Participation & Strengthening the ERAU+2019 Work Programme, by twinning with three advanced partners in brain research, Maastricht University (UM), KingU+2019s College London (KCL), and Ghent University (UGent). Through networking activities, ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds in low resource settings across the globe, there is an urgent need to understand adolescentsU+2019 perceptions about COVID-19, especially their awareness of social distancing/isolation rules, sense of personal vulnerability, and barriers to these measures. It is also important to understand the health consequences of such policies. As the pandemic recedes, young people living in poor urban communities are ...

The COVID19 pandemic has shown our health care fragility vis a vis novel pathogens, with a global disruption on societal welfare. Despite the towering success of vaccine development, lack of preparedness on integrative clinical and molecular phenotyping has emerged with clarity and highlights the need to scale translational efforts for personalized prevention and therapy. Of particular concern are the long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 ...

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has emerged as the largest global health threat to humanity in this century. According to the World Health Organisation Situation Report of March 28th 2020, 571,659 patients were diagnosed with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 26,493 deaths were reported globally. The wide spectrum of clinical symptoms, disease severity in high risk individuals, transmission ...

The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 exposure range from a lack of infection to lethal COVID-19. This immense inter-individual clinical variability is the key scientific and medical enigma in the field. While age and certain co-morbidities are known to influence disease outcome, these parameters do not explain all variation. In addition, there are other SARS-CoV-2 phenotypes of clinical importance: multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and ...