Cytogenetics and Genomics Department

Grants Obtained

Research Team Member 2018-2019

Funding Body: H2020-WIDESPREAD-04-2017-TeamingPhase1
Title: Establishment of an Agricultural Genomics Centre in Cyprus (AGRICYGEN)
 

Co-Principal Investigator, 2013-2015

Funding Body: Norway Government through the Cyprus Planning Bureau
Title: Establishment of a translational facility at the CING


Research Team Member (Technical Committee): 2012-2016

Funding Body: 7th European Union Framework Program, European Union
Title: A New Genetic Laboratory for Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis (ANGELab)


Competitive Telethon Grant

for the project “Accurate Mapping of Breakpoints in Apparently Balanced Translocations Using Whole-Genome Next Generation Sequencing


Principal Investigator, 2010-2013 

Funding Body: Research Council of Lithuania 
Title: Evaluation of Pathogenic Copy Number Variation in Etiopathology of Mental Retardation.
  
  
Principal Investigator, 2010-2014
 
Funding Body: COST Program, European Union 
Title: Brain Extracellular Matrix in Human Disease (ECMNet).
 
  
Coordinator, 2010-2012

 
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus
Title: High resolution genetic investigation of autism in Cyprus.
 
  
Coordinator, 2010-2012
 
Funding Body: Telethon, Cyprus 
Title: Targeted screening of microRNA – coding genes in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2009-2012
 
Funding Body: 7th European Union Framework Program, European Union 
Title: Improving Diagnoses of Mental Retardation in Children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia through Genetic Characterisation and Bioinformatics/-Statistics (CHERISH).
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2009-2012
 
Funding Body: 7th European Union Framework Program, European Union 
Title: Point of care monitoring and diagnostics for autoimmune diseases, (POCEMON).
 
 
Principal Investigator, 2009-2011

 
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title: Human Genome Copy Number Variations in The Cypriot Population.
 
  
Coordinator, 2009-2014
 
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title: Upgrade of The Microarray Laboratory And Development of a New X Chromosome Exon-Specific Array.
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2007-2010
 
Funding Body: 6th Program, EPYΕΞ/0406/09, “SYNDRO-X”, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title:  Genetic investigation of syndromes with X chromosome anomalies.

  
Principal Investigator, 2007-2010
 
Funding Body: 6th Program, EPYΕΞ/0506/29, “SYNDROMA”, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title:  Genetic investigation and characterization of unknown genetic and neurological syndromes in the population of Cyprus, using high-resolution DNA microarrays.
 
   
Principal Investigator, 2006-2009
 
Funding Body: 6th European Union Framework Program, European Union. 
Title: Microarray-based screen for differential feto-maternal methylation of DNA sequences (SAFE-SAF).

  
Principal Investigator, 2006-2010
 
Funding Body: 6th Program, EPYAN/0205/07, “MM”, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title: Advancing microarray technology.
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2005-2007
 
Funding Body: 6th Program, ΑΠΟΝΕ/0504/04, “X-TSIP”, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title: Development of DNA microarray for the detection of microdeletion and microduplication in genes located in the X chromosome.
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2003-2007
 
Funding Body: 6th European Union Framework Program, European Union. 
Title: Special Non-Invasive Advances in Fetal and Neonatal Evaluation Network (SAFE).

   
Principal Investigator, 2002-2006

 
Funding Body: 5th European Union Framework Program, European Union. 
Title: The Genetic and Neurobiological Basis of X-Linked Mental Retardation (EURO-MRX).
 
  
Co-Investigator, 2002-2005

 
Funding Body: 5th European Union Framework Program, European Union. 
Title: EUMEDIS (Euro-Mediterranean Information Society) – Organizing two European teaching courses and workshop in FISH and another one in Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics – European School of Genetic Medicine.
 
 
Co-Investigator, 2002-2006
 
Funding Body: Estonian Science Foundation, Estonia. 
Title: Development of novel DNA diagnostic technologies for the detection of structural chromosomal abnormalities in case of mental retardation – Probe Bank and DNA arrays for MAPH-DCA.
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2002-2004

Funding Body: UNOPS, United Nation 
Title: Provision of prenatal diagnosis for Down syndrome and all other known chromosomal syndromes to the Cypriot Population [Accepted with a condition to get a written consent from the Turkish Cypriot Collaborator]
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2002-2004

 
Funding Body: 5th Program, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title: Development of a novel methodology for the prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome.
 
  
Principal Investigator, 2001-2003
 
Funding Body: 4th Program, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus. 
Title: Development and demonstration of the new molecular methodology “ΧΑΔ” for the detection of chromosomal anomalies.
 
   
Co-Investigator, 2000-2002

 
Funding Body: 3rd Program, Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus 
Title: Isolation, molecular analysis and characterization of Lipids in food that acquired molecular mutations during manufacturing, string and cooking.
  
 
Sub-contracting Investigator, 2000-2001

 
Funding Body: Merck, Sharp & Dome, USA.
Title: Colorectal Carcer prevention by Rofecoxib.
 
 
 

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