Projects

FUNDING ID (FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS)

►02/2025-01/2027              

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – VISION ERC, “MechanoOptical Biomarkers for non-communicable diseases” (VISION ERC -PATH 2/0524/0003, “MechanoNCoDe”)

Funding: €100,000,

Role: Project Coordinator/ Principal Investigator

►05/2025-04/2027              

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – EXCELLENCE, “Enhancing Photodynamic Therapy Efficacy in Cancer Through Tumor Microenvironment Normalization” (EXCELLENCE/0524/0227, “PDTenhance”)

Funding: €250,000,

Role: Project Coordinator

►07/2024-06/2026              

H2020 HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01 “TumoR microEnvIronment Normalization FOR enhanCed photodynamic thErapy” (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01, 101152646, “REINFORCE”)

Funding: € 164,328

Role: Project Coordinator

►10/23-09/2026                

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – PhD in Industry, “Imaging using Flexible Low Loss Polymer Optical Multimode Fibre Waveguide” (PHD IN INDUSTRY/1222/0064, “InFLOW”)

Funding: €150,000,

Role: EUC Coordinator

 

Completed

► 10/2023- 01/2025              Erasmus+ Programme (ERASMUS) ERASMUS2027, Erasmus Mundus Design Measures Cyprus, “Designing a Joint Master in multIModal bioMEDical Imaging And miCroscopY” (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-EMJM-DESIGN 101128164, “IMMEDIACY”)

Funding: €55,000,

Role: Project Coordinator

►05/2022 – 08/2024            

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – EXCELLENCE HUBS, “Nanomechanical FingerPrints of Pulmonary Fibrosis” (EXCELLENCE 0421/0263, “MechanoLung”),

Funding: €250,000,

Role: Principal Investigator/Project Coordinator

►05/2023 – 02/2024            

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – CONCEPT, “Simultaneously nanomechanical and fluorescence characterization of fresh tissue biopsies” (CONCEPT/0722/0088, “MechanoFluorescence”)

Funding: €40,000,

Role: Principal Investigator/Project Coordinator

►12/2022 – 5/2023              

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – INNOVATION VOUCHERS, “Collection of morphological features of single cells for developing artificial intelligence methods for early cancer diagnosis” (INNOVOUCHER/0722/ 0029, “AIMorphologyDiagnosis”),

Funding: €5,000,

Role: : EUC Coordinator

►03/2021- 09/2022            

 Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation  – CYPRUS RESEARCH AWARD – YOUNG RESEARCHER, “The NanoMechanical Profile of Sarcoma” (CULTURE/AWARD-YR/0119, “MehanoSarcoma”),

Funding: €60,000,

Role: Principal Investigator/Project Coordinator

►05/2022 – 02/2023            

Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation  – CONCEPT, “3D Characterization of the nanomechanical properties of biological samples” (CONCEPT/0521/0069, “3D NANOBIOSAMPLES”)

Funding: €40,000,

Role: Partner

►12/10/2018-11/10/2022     

COST action “Correlated Multimodal Imaging in Life Sciences” (COMULIS, CA17121)

 Role: Cyprus Management Committee (MC) member