Professor of Allergy & Paediatric Allergy

Professor Nicolas Nicolaou is a Consultant Allergist for children and adults at the Asthma and Allergy Center, Limassol, and Course Lead for Paediatrics at the University of Nicosia Medical School. His special research interests are Food Allergy, Childhood Asthma, and Allergy Prevention.

Dr Nicolaou graduated from the medical school of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1996) and received his specialist training in Paediatrics in Cyprus and Greece (1997-2003). In 2003, he was awarded a European Respiratory Society long term fellowship and joined the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Birth Cohort Study Research team in the UK.

In 2006, he received his Master’s Degree in Childhood Asthma, and in 2009 he was awarded PhD by the University of Manchester for his doctoral thesis “The Predictors of clinical reactivity to peanuts within the context of a population-based birth cohort study”. His discovery that IgE-response to peanut allergen Ara h 2 is much more predictive of true peanut allergy than standard tests established the role of component-resolved diagnostics in clinical practice.

In 2010, he returned to Limassol and organized the first Asthma and Allergy Center on the Island. In 2011, he joined the Medical School at the University of Nicosia and since 2017, he is the Principal Investigator of the Cyprus team of the Allergy Reduction Trial (A.R.T).

Prof Nicolaou is a member of the European and American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the Greek Paediatic Allergy Society, and the Cyprus Paediatric Society. He has published in many leading international scientific journals of his specialty and has given lectures at local and international conferences in the field of his expertise.