THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY

The Department of Physiology (“Physiologeion”) of the Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, plays an important educational and research role in the discipline of Experimental Physiology. The purpose of the department is to provide a high level of education, and to conduct research aiming at underlying the mechanisms governing human health and disease and discovering new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to address them. Departmental activities are centred around the following axes:

Developing advanced undergraduate and post-graduate (MSc & PhD) programmes in collaboration with leading laboratories and research centres in Greece and abroad
Carrying out projects in basic, translation and clinical research in contemporary biomedical fields
Developing and providing access to advanced research and technological infrastructures
Utilising research results by developing innovative research products and services.
Bringing together science and society through actions of openness, dissemination, and transfer of knowledge.

Undergraduate Study

MEDICINE

Neurophysiology
Physiology, Semester 3
Physiology, Semester 4
Elective: Clinical Physiology Seminars
Elective: Physiology of Exercise and Ageing
Optional Workshop: Basic Clinical Skills
Assessment

DENTISTRY

Winter Semester
Assessment

PHARMACY

Winter Semester
Assessment

Master's Programmes

Οι ιστοσελίδες των μεταπτυχιακών προγραμμάτων

Master's Programme: Molecular and Applied Physiology

International Msc : Molecular Biomedicine. Mechanisms of Disease, Molecular and Cellular therapies & bioinnovation

Announcements - News

All our news, lab announcements and events

Research Laboratories

March 29

Important distrinction of the associate professor of Physiology – Embryology Mara Simopoulou

The Department of Physiology of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is pleased to announce the international distinction of the Associate Professor of Physiology-Embryology Mara Simopoulou as the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Assessor for Centre Accreditation of Training Program in Clinical Embryology. Furthermore, Dr. Simopoulou […]

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Research Laboratories

February 7

Interdisciplinary scientific collaboration between the Laboratory of Physiology, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB, FORTH) and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL, FORTH), sheds light into the molecular mechanisms that regulate nuclear lipid droplets accumulation during ageing.

The findings of the study, published in the premier international scientific journal Aging Cell, reveal a fundamental quality control mechanism that regulates nuclear lipid droplets (nLDs) accumulation and safeguards the integrity and the function of the nucleus. Lipid droplets (LDs), the major form of fat storage in cells, are evolutionarily conserved intracellular organelles, which provide […]

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January 19

Significant Success of the “Physiologion” Physiology Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine of the EKPA

The scientific organization Fondation Santé supports biomedical scientific research by providing highly competitive scholarships to excellent PhD candidates for projects to be conducted in academic institutions in Greece or Cyprus. For 2023, these scholarships titled «The Sidney Altman Scholarship Program», were awarded to only four graduates, two of whom are conducting their doctoral studies at […]

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