Seven delegates from the University of Malta recently attended the closing meeting of the TrainMALTA H2020 Project in Leuven, Belgium.
TrainMALTA is a three-year, EU funded project with focus on training local researchers in the areas of bioinformatics, genomics, and animal models. The University of Cambridge and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven partnered with the University of Malta to organise summer schools, short-courses, exchanges, placements, and workshops over the three year period.
The project also made funds available for undergraduate and postgraduate students to attend training in related areas and to present their research at international conferences. In total, more than 50 members of the university were involved and benefited from the project’s activities.
Four members of the Maltese delegation presented their ongoing research at the Leuven meeting, titled 'Genomics for Diagnosis of Rare Diseases' which was held over two days. These talks were well received and covered several topics including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Bioinformatics and Cancer Research.
The Maltese group consisted of Dr Rosienne Farrugia, Ms Francesca Borg Carbott, Ms Chanelle Cilia, Ms Jessica Debattista from the Department of Applied Biomedical Science (Faculty of Health Sciences); Dr Analisse Cassar, Ms Oriana Mazzitelli from the Department of Anatomy (Faculty of Medicine and Surgery); and Dr Jean-Paul Ebejer from the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking.
More information is available on the TrainMALTA website. To get in touch with TrainMALTA send an email.