Anniversary!

 

14th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC) Scientific Cyprus

 

 

19-21 NOVEMBER 2026
NICOSIA, CYPRUS

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Program

2026 IMBMC Congress Program

In progress

CONGRESS INSTRUCTIONS

Congress will follow the Governmental safety guidelines for COVID-19 that will apply for the time. 

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

of the IMBMC Bio-Medical Scientific Cyprus (BSC).

 

Meeting Report in the Nature Publisher journal Cell Death & Disease

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TEDx like Talks for first time in Cyprus.

Four World-known Science Celebrities on Stage

for once-of-a-lifetime Experience.

14th International IMBMC 2026

 

Co-organized and under the auspices of Cyprus (CYMA)

Endorsed and under the auspices of Cyprus Biological Society (CBS)

With the participation and endorsement of Cyprus Athletes Organization (KOA)

Under the Auspices and Endorsement of Societies and Organizations:

                   

7-9 November 2024

Professor Dr. Thomas Sudhof. Professor of molecular and cellular physiology and bicourtcy of neurology, in psychiatry and behavioural science. Stanford University, USA. NOBEL PRICE physiology of medicine - discovery on vesicle trafficking in 2013.

7-9 November 2024

Professor John McMurray. Professor of Medical Cardiology and an honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow

7-9 November 2024

Stylianos E. Antonarakis Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva. Previous Professor and founding Chairman of Genetic Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, and founding director of institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva

7-9 November 2024

Richard Frackowiak. Professor and head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL) and its Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV). His interest is in human brain structure and function relationships in health and disease

7-9 November 2024

Professor Christodoulos Stefanadis. Chief of Catheterization Laboratory of Dept. of Cardiology, Athens Medical School

7-9 November 2024

Randall C Starling. Professor of Medicine Heart Failure Specialist. Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute Cleveland Clinic Cleveland OH

7-9 November 2024

Professor George Malliaras. Prince Philip Professor of Technology. Prof. Malliaras is interested in the development of implantable devices, with applications in neurological disorders and brain cancer.

7-9 November 2024

Professor Dr. Stefano Del Prato. Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Pisa School of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Diabetes, University of Pisa, Italy

7-9 November 2024

Prof. Dr. Stavros G. Drakos. Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Utah (U of U) Health & School of Medicine. Medical Director of the U of U historic Cardiac Mechanical Support/Artificial Heart Program, Co-Chief Heart Failure & Transplant and Director of Research for the Cardiology Division.

7-9 November 2024

Prof. Dr. Constantinos G. Hadjipanayis. L. Dade Lunsford, Professor of Neurosurgery. Executive-Vice Chairman, Dept. of Neurological Surgery. Director, Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery, Co-Director, UPMC Brain Tumor Program, Director, Brain Tumor Nanotechnology Laboratory at the Hillman Cancer Center

7-9 November 2024

Prof. Dr. Roberto Di Bartolomeo. Cardiac Surgery Unit Cardio-thoraco-vascular Department S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital. University of Bologna, Italy Aortic Dissection, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Aortic Valve Replacement, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

7-9 November 2024

Agamemnon Epenedos. Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. Biopharmaceutical industry executive.

9-11 November 2023

Professor Dr. Harvey J. Alter. Professor of Physiology at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Nobel Prize for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus in 2020.

9-11 November 2023

Professor Dr. Josep Brugada Terradellas. Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona since 2010. Discovered the Brugada syndrome.

9-11 November 2023

George Paxinos. The scientist who mapped the brain of humans and the principal experimental animals. Professor of Medical Sciences at Neuroscience Research Australia and The University of New South Wales, Sydney

9-11 November 2023

Dr Paul A. Friedman. Cardiac Electrophysiologist. Cardiologist, Chair, Cardiovascular Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Sir Martin J. Evans Cardiff University, United Kingdom. First to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Dr. Gregg Leonard Semenza Pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Sir Gregory Winter Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018 on protein and antibody engineering and antibody therapies

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Dr. Philippe Menasché cardiac surgeon, Hospital Européan Georges Pompidou, Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery University of Paris Descartes Cell Therapy of Cardiovascular Diseases (Stem cells for the treatment of heart failure)

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Speaker: Carl Ikeme. Encounter with a Famous Recovered patient of blood cancer “The patients perspective: Why (not) Me”

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Dr. Paul Moss Professor of Haematology, translational human immunology Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy University of Birmingham leading the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium

3-5 November 2022

10th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

3-5 November 2022

10th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Dr. Nikolai Korpan Chairman, International Inst. of Cryosurgery Rudolfinerhaus Hospital, Vienna, Austria

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Stylianos E. Antonarakis Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva. Previous Professor and founding Chairman of Genetic Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, and founding director of institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Vasso Apostolopoulos Research Partnerships at Victoria University, Australia Expertise with development of drugs and vaccines (First vaccine against breast cancer)

3-5 November 2022

Key Note Speaker (10th IMBMC) Professor Dr. Kypros Nicolaides “Father of fetal Medicine” Professor in Fetal Medicine King's College Hospital founder and chairman Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF)Professor Dr. Kypros Nicolaides “Father of fetal Medicine” Professor in Fetal Medicine King's College Hospital founder and chairman Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF)

18-20 November 2021

Key Note Speaker (9th IMBMC) Professor Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis Professor of Medicine Epidemiology and Population Health Statistics and Biomedical Data Science

18-20 November 2021

9th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

18-20 November 2021

Key Note Speaker (9th IMBMC) Professor Dr. George P. Chrousos professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus Athens University Medical School, Greece

18-20 November 2021

9th International Multithematic IMBMC Professors Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, Dr Nadir Arber, Dr Oliver A. Cornely, Dr Grigoris Gerotziafas & Dr Kosti Andreas

7-9 November 2019

Key Note Speaker (7th IMBMC) Professor Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Serving humanity is the religion: Magdi Yacoub

7-9 November 2019

7th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

7-9 November 2019

7th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

7-9 November 2019

7th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

15 November 2018

Key Note Speaker (6th IMBMC) Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover

 15-17 November 2018

6th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

 8-11 May 2018

Honorary Professor of the School of Medicine and School of Sciences, Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn

 2 November 2017

5th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

 2, 3 and 4 November 2017

Key Note Speaker (5th IMBMC) Nobel Laureate Leland Hartwel

4, 5 November 2016

Key Note Speaker (4th IMBMC) Nobel Laureate Tomas Lindahl, Honorary Professor of European University Cyprus

04 November 2016

4th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

14 November 2015

Key Note Speaker (3rd IMBMC), Nobel Laureate Ada E. Yonath Honorary Professor of European University Cyprus

 14 November 2015

3rd International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

 15 November 2014

Key Note Speaker (2nd IMBMC), Nober Laureate Robert Huber Honorary Professor of European University Cyprus

 15 November 2014

2nd International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

9 November 2013

1st International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC)

Keynote Speaker (13th IMBMC)

Vassilios Papalois Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Consultant Transplant and General Surgeon at the Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK

Keynote Speaker (13th IMBMC)

https://www.microns-explorer.org/

Professor Andreas Tolias co-founding Director of Enigma Project at Stanford The MICrONS Project Stanford Bio-X Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute

14th ANNIVERSARY, IMBMC 2026

Like never before, the scientific event of the year with more than 80 Internationally renowned Scientists as plenary speakers.

SCIENTIFIC CELEBRITIES like NO other Congress in the Geographic Region

Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier 

 

Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Nobel in Chemistry 2020 

 

Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna co-invented the gene-editing

system CRISPR-Cas9, a versatile technology for editing DNA on an unprecedented scale with extremely high precision. 

Professor Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong 

 

 

Treatment for Cancer 

 

Researcher and Surgeon who invented Abraxane, a drug used for lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer. He has been owner and executive chairman of

the Los Angeles Times and shareholder of the LA Lakers.

 

Soon-Shiong received FDA approval for a new class of immunotherapy drug called Anktiva in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The IL-17 seperagonist.

Adjunct professor of surgery and executive director of the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; and a visiting professor at

Imperial College London and Dartmouth College. He is currently Executive Chairman, Global Chief Medical & Technology Officer at ImmunityBio.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDyqswYUOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtbRBfnkxRU

 

13th ANNIVERSARY, IMBMC 2025

Like never before, the scientific event of the year with more than 60 Internationally renowned Scientists as plenary speakers.

Keynote Speaker (13th IMBMC)

Dr. Q | .. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa …

https://www.netflix.com/cy/title/81004466

Netflix Series THE SURGEON’S Cut A surgeon without borders.

Brain Tumor Stem Cell Research Laboratory

Mayo Clinic Florida

Keynote Speaker (13th IMBMC)

Valentin Fuster

President of Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital

General Director of the National Center for Cardiovascular investigation

Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital

Keynote Speaker (14th IMBMC)

Professor John Floras, Sinai Health, Canada; Cardiology

Keynote Speaker (14th IMBMC)

Professor Amir Onn, Sheba Medical Cent, Pulmonology

Keynote Speaker (14th IMBMC)

Professor Arne Astrup, University of Copenhagen; Obesity Specialist

Keynote Speaker (13th IMBMC)

Professor Dr. Jean SciareDirector of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) and Grant Holder of the "EMME

Special Guest

Terry Pirovolakis
Speaking about his Journey Towards a Cure for SPG50 through Novel Gene Therapy

Terry Pirovolakis pictured with his son Michael. Michael is the only known child in Canada to be diagnosed with SPG50 and was the first to receive a novel gene therapy for the condition as the single patient in a clinical trial. Photo taken from CureSPG501

 

About the Congress

Welcome to the 12th International Multithematic Bio-Medical Congress (IMBMC) of the School of Medicine, European University Cyprus in collaboration with the Cyprus Medical Association and to Cyprus the island of love.

Dear Colleagues and Friends welcome to this high caliber multi-thematic Scientific Congress, “Biomedical Scientific Cyprus (BSC)”, of the School of Medicine of the European University of Cyprus (EUC). IMBMC has now been established as an International Bio-Medical Congress for Research, Innovation, and Treatment; where distinguish scientists from all over the world are coming to lecture and present their original work.

The venue of the congress is the Cultural Center of EUC in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The founder, organizer, and chairman of the event is the member of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Dr Ioannis S. Patrikios, of the School of Medicine of the European University Cyprus (EUC).

We hope to see you for a successful and exiting meeting.

Professor Dr Ioannis Patrikios

European University Cyprus

Media Sponsors 

 

With the support of ANTENNA

 

 

-certificates for 18 C.M.E will be awarded to all delegates by the Cyprus Medical Association and
– 18 CPD by the Cyprus Biological Society (CBS)

-14.35 International Continuing Nursing and Midwifery Education Units.

The Congress is under the auspices, institutionalized and co-organized with the Cyprus Medical Association (CYMA), and under the auspices of the Ministry of Health

 

 

18 Credits of Continued Medical Education will be awarded by the CYMA and

 

18 Credits of Continuing Professional Development by the CBS