The MV department coordinates the MSc in Biotechnology programme at the CING postgraduate school in collaboration with other academic and industry experts covering all main fields of Biotechnology. The course Molecular Virology and Immunology is an elective course for the other MSc programmes offered. In addition, MSc and PhD students are supervised conducting their research project at our department.

Currently, there are two PhD students and a fluctuating number of MSc students at out department:

PhD

• Giorgos Solomonides (PhD cand.): Chaperone Therapy Mediated with an AAV Vector on ALS Phenotypes Associated with TDP-43 Proteinopathy
• Elissa Englezou (PhD cand): ELUCITADING MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF THE ROLE OF EBV GENETIC VARIANTS IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Students, who have successfully completed their thesis at our department:

2025:

• Paraskevi Kouspa (MSc): Analysis of serum samples of MS patients for the presence of antibodies against cellular proteins and EBNA1
• Vasilis Pavlou (MSc): Comparative Analysis of Nitrifying Organisms in Membrane Filtration and Conventional Sedimentation Systems in Mediterranean Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Rasha Megalaa (MSc): NGS-based detection and characterization of Enteroviruses in Sewages in Cyprus
• Anastasia Georgiou (MSc): (Electro-) biodegradation of waste cooking oil for water resilience

2024:

• Chrysovalanto Gavriil (MSc): Development of an in vitro model to assess EBV inactivation methods
• Maria Charalambous (MSc): IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS PRESENT ON GRAPES IN VINEYARDS OF CYPRIOT GRAPE VARIETIES MANAGED ORGANICALLY BY ZAMBARTAS WINERY
• Styliana Amvrosiou (MSc): Microbial fuel cells for biodegradation of waste cooking oil and electricity generation
• Evdoxia Constantinou (MSc): Analysis of local barley varieties for bio-functional molecules with emphasis on b-glucans

2023:

• Petros Ladas (PhD): Investigation of the aetiology of community acquired pneumonia in Cyprus and characterization of host factors in viral/bacterial co-infections
• Eleni Koshiari (MSc): ENTEROVIRUSES AND ALS: ESTABLISHING A CELLULAR MODEL OF TDP-43 PROTEINOPATHY TRIGGERED BY ENTEROVIRAL INFECTION
• Sofia Christofidou (MSc): DEVELOPMENT OF AN EBV VACCINE
• Maryam Saif Ali Al Jabri (MSc): ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIOPHAGE FOR USE IN PHAGE THERAPY APPROACHES

2022:

• Katerina Challouma (MSc): CHARACTERIZATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES IN SARS-COV-2 POSITIVE INDIVIDUALS
• Emily Plastira (MSc): INFECTION AND VACCINE - INDUCED NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY RESPONSES TO THE SARS-COV2 VARIANTS (WT, B.1.1.7, B.1.351, P1, B.1.617.2)
• Juan Carlos Gutierrez Suarez (MSc): Phage hunting

2021:

• Despina Varvatsi (PhD): Dissecting the role of EBV variants in Multiple Sclerosis

2020: 

• Giorgos Solomonides (MSc): Optimising Adeno-Associated Viral Vector mediated Gene Delivery to the Peripheral and Central Nervous System
• Eleni Foti (MSc): The possible role of TLR3 and MYD88 in West Nile Virus Infection
• Fotini Ioannou (MSc): Production of Adeno-Associated viral vectors for targeting neuronal NAD+ levels

2019:

• Phivos Stavrou (MSc): Investigating the evolution of virulence of the Pandemic A(H1N1) Influenza Virus
• Elie Deeba (PhD): Investigating the Role of Natural Killer (NK) Cells in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Polina Carlettinou (MSc): Activation of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in vitro: Relevance to Multiple Sclerosis
• Stella Thephanou (MSc): HSV1-oligodendrocytes interaction – possible role on demyelination in multiple sclerosis
• Stavrilia Georgiou (MSc): Differential targeting of CNS cell subtypes by pseudotyping of Lentiviral vectors

2018:

• Markella Papadopoulou (MSc): Host-Pathogen and Pathogen-Pathogen Interactions in Chronic and Acute Respiratory Tract Infections: Has the Pharyngeal Microbiome a protective role against respiratory pathogens?

2017:

• Maria Petrou (MSc): Mapping of possible mutations on the L1 of HPV after 10 years of vaccine use

2015:

• Elie Deeba (MSc): Characterization of natural killer cells in multiple sclerosis patients

2014:

• Kalia Kyriacou (MSc): Study of autoantibodies in multiple sclerosis using an animal model

2013:

• Elpiniki Nikolaou (MSc): Molecular Typing and epidemiology of human rhinoviruses
• Panayiotis Myrianthopoulos (MSc): Toll-like receptor possible mutations in multiple sclerosis patients