Biostatistics Department

Awards

• UNESCO–AI Fozan Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in STEM – Kyriaki Michailidou (2025)

• CING Panos Ioannou Young Scientist Award 2024 – Maria Zanti (2025)

• Science and Sustainability award, UK alumni award by the British Council – Kyriaki Michailidou (2025)

• Selected as a runner-up for the Early Career Researcher 2024 - Maria Zanti

• Best poster award at the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) conference 2024 – Kristia Yiangou

• Selected as a runner-up for the Early Career Researcher 2023 – Kristia Yiangou

• 2nd place for the best oral presentation at the 6th Greek Conference of Oncology ESO – Kristia Yiangou

Selected Publications

Zanti M, …, Michailidou K. Analysis of more than 400,000 women provides case-control evidence for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification. Nat Commun. 2025;16(1):4852. doi:10. ...

International Collaborations

The Biostatistics Department actively collaborates with major international research consortia, contributing statistical expertise to large, multidisciplinary efforts in cancer genetics, ...

Projects

OVATION Project The OVATION project focuses on improving the interpretation of genetic variants associated with hereditary ovarian and breast cancer. The project integrates large-scale genomic and ...