Malta and Warwick agree research and teaching collaboration in Neuroscience

The University of Malta and University of Warwick have agreed to collaborate on an initiative to promote research and teaching collaborations in the field of Neuroscience between the two universities.

In July, Professor Giuseppe Di Giovanni of the University of Malta and Coordinator of the Malta Neuroscience Network, met Dr Martin Spillane, the Warwick Alumni Ambassador to Malta and Warwick Visiting Fellow, and Professor Bruno Frenguelli of the Warwick School of Life Sciences, to discuss a Warwick initiative to promote research and teaching collaboration between the Malta and Warwick Neuroscience communities.

Among the initiatives being proposed is having joint Warwick-Malta Ph.D. and M.Sc. research programmes as well as an exchange of Neuroscience staff and post-graduate researchers.

It is thought that this collaboration will be very profitable in furthering research particularly in the area of Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and other similar conditions especially since there are many similarities in approach at Malta and at Warwick.

Both the rector of the University of Malta Professor Alfred J. Vella and the pro-rector for International Development, Prof Godfrey Baldacchino have given their full support to the proposal and it is hoped that the first exchanges of students and lecturers will take place in January 2017.

The full programme will be presented at the 6th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Conference, which will be held in St Julians in June 2017, is expected to bring up to 500 Neuroscience researchers to Malta. The conference will be hosted by the Malta Neuroscience Network and supported by the University of Malta