Targeting cellular senescence as a therapeutic strategy is considered of great promise to address age-associated diseases including cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, pulmonary, kidney or musculoskeletal diseases. But cellular senescence is a coin with two sides. While chronic senescence is widely implicated in tissue…
The Chair of the School of Medicine, Professor Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, and a team of faculty members—experts in Infectious Diseases—consisting of Professors Georgios Daikos, Nikolaos Sipsas, and Sotiris Tsiodras, met with the Head of the European Clinical Research Alliance for Infectious Diseases, Professor…
The 11th Aegean Hematology Oncology Symposium will be held on 19-22 September 2024 in Kos, Greece. The Symposium is categorized and organized as International Congress under the auspices of the Balkan Myeloma Study Group. It is co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian…
A new review published in Nature Reviews Neurology sheds new light on the clinical implications of brain asymmetries, underscoring the significance of individual variability in brain structure and function. The collaborative effort, led by Sebastian Ocklenburg from the Medical School Hamburg, Germany,…
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens invites the interest parties to apply for the Master Program entitled “Nanomedicine” for the academic year 2024-2025. The program focuses on the provision of high level qualification and specialized training in the field of “Nanomedicine”.…
The 21st International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging was successfully completed last week, with incredible success and an unprecedented participation of more than 1500 attendees from 49 countries. The Symposium was held in the Megaron Athens International Convention Centre.
This scientific event is…
The da Vinci robotic surgery system, a flexible surgical system that sets a new standard in minimally invasive care, was inaugurated on Friday, 24 May 2024. That is the first robotic surgery system ever installed in a Greek University Hospital, allowing for…
In continuation of its efforts to protect the intellectual property of researchers at NKUA, the Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship announces the invention of Professor Emeritus, Evangelos Kontakiotis, and Assistant Professor, Anastasia Agrafioti, from the NKUA’s School of Dentistry.
The invention…
Professor George Stergiou, chairman of the Hypertension Center STRIDE-7 at the Third Department of Medicine of the NKUA’s School of Medicine at “Sotiria” Hospital was elected as the next President of the International Society of Hypertension – See ISH March 2024 e-Bulletin.…
‘Mastering Endovascular Techniques. Tips and Tricks in Endovascular Surgery’, the English language textbook for the NKUA’s School of Medicine, is scheduled to be released by prestigious worldwide publisher Springer, London, next month. This publication will be the primary resource for students enrolled…