Over the past year, a small team of engineers at the department of Systems and Control Engineering (SCE) of the…
A project seeking to design and develop a new prosthetic hip joint is currently underway at the University of Malta.…
It was just over a year ago that two University of Malta departments and an institute started working on…
Now in its third year of operation, the Mobile Dental Unit continues to improve the oral health of the…
A new piece of simple technology armed with a complex algorithm could give dementia patients freedom to wander unattended while…
The ALIVE Charity Foundation, has been instrumental in raising a total of half a million euros for cancer research over…
With BEAT-IT, DR MARK ABELA is helping to determine heart problems before complications develop. Here he explains how and why.…
Through funds channelled to RIDT by the Alive Charity Foundation, GIULIA VASSALLO EMINYAN is currently researching differentiation therapy – a…
Marijuana has been used by humans for over 5,000 years for religious, spiritual, recreational and medicinal reasons. Even so, the…
A new discovery could lead to chemotherapy becoming more potent by over 50 times in three different cancers – or…
In the future, games will be able to understand the player and make decisions; yet the technology could revolutionise many…
With just a few weeks left till songstress NADINE AXISA fills Hotel Phoenicia in Valletta with Frank Sinatra ballads, she…
Starting in summer 2018, a new project will examine 2,000 subjects and take their DNA samples, to understand how prevalent…
Running between July 2016 and June 2019, project ‘FLASC’ is looking at ways of creating and storing unused offshore renewable…
Through the Malta Next Generation Sequencing Project, researchers at the University of Malta are trying to understand what genetics tell…
As more cars hit our already-congested roads, traffic and air pollution will continue to increase. Here, PROFESSOR MARIA ATTARD and…
As QuMaS – a research project to demonstrate a quantum communications link between Malta and Sicily – comes to a…
Thanks to the Bjorn Formosa PhD Scholarship, REBECCA BORG is currently researching motor neuron disorders here in Malta. In this…
Although one never stops learning, the first years of life are indeed crucial for the development of one’s character and…
Through a fund granted by the RIDT, DR WILLIAM ZAMMIT is hunting down historic printed works that have been missing…
Having seen to a total of 2,711 visitors in just over two years, the Mobile Dental Unit has been…
As the LARSOCS project enters its fifth month, we take a look at the University of Malta’s Electronic Systems Engineering…
Liquid biopsy could revolutionise the way patients suffering from certain cancers are treated. Here, PhD student JEANESSE SCERRI explains how.…
In less than two weeks’ time, Handel’s iconic musical masterpiece, The Messiah, will be performed at the Anglican…
On Easter Sunday, Handel’s iconic composition, The Messiah, will be performed at the Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Valletta. With just a…
Having raised almost €1.6m since it was first founded, RIDT has definitely managed to put research on the map……
BJORN FORMOSA, the founder of the ALS Malta Foundation, explains the importance of leaving a legacy behind. Few Maltese…
Sound and space are inherently correlated, but what if you could give a recording the depth and acoustics that…
LARSOCS is one of the projects being funded by the RIDT. It brings together three major departments within the University…
With two weeks to go to Alegria Academia de Baile Flamenco’s ‘Amor,’ we catch up with producer and…
Language is a multi-layered tool that gives poets the licence to alternate the meaning of words, and public speakers…
This Saturday, the first Love Thy Balls event will take place at The Point. Aimed at getting people to…
‘We have more detailed maps of other planets than we do of our seabeds.’ Senior Lecturer in Geosciences Dr…
Over the past decade, Science in the City has become a staple on thelocal cultural calendar, so we caught…
From a student body to one of Malta’s most high-flying futsal teams. Here the newly-elected President of the University…
It’s meant to revolutionise our cultural scene and make Malta a European cultural centre par excellence, but how will Valletta2018…
SPEECHIE is a simple concept that could revolutionise the way speech-language pathologists work with children, but like all other things…
Caravaggio is nowadays considered one of the most important artists who’ve ever lived… But this has always been the case!…
Could it be that the prevention of certain types of cancer, including colorectal cancer, lie in something as simple and…
In the second part of the final installment in the series dedicated to brain-related research, neuroscientist Professor Giuseppe Di Giovanni…
In a two-part final installment in the series dedicated to brain-related research, neuroscientist and coordinator of the Malta Neuroscience…
In the third installment dedicated to research in Brain related areas, we chat to Professor Mario Valentino about the Laboratory…
In the second installment dedicated to research in Brain related areas, we visit Dr George Azzopardi’s office to chat…
In this installment dedicated to research in Brain related areas, we sit down with Professor Helen Grech, a speech…
In last week’s blog Four Seasons for Brain Research RIDT CEO Wilfred Kenely speaks about the relationship between art and fundraising…
Next month, on Easter Sunday 27th March, RIDT will be presenting Vivaldi’s famous violin concertos The Four Seasons in aid of…
With the third-ever national diabetes survey now underway, the Head of the Department of Public Health at the University of…
What would have once seemed like an object straight out of a sci-fi film, is now a device that could…
17 years after it was first held, Teatru Unplugged has become a highly-anticipated fixture on the local social calendar. Here,…
Through the compilation of biological data, scientists and farmers are working together to ensure the health of cattle and pigs,…
The fight against breast cancer doesn’t begin and end in October; it lasts 365 days a year. Here, Gertrude Abela,…
Although the kidneys are vital organs, we often overlook their crucial role in our overall health. Here, Dr Valerie Said…
What is the link between the Maltese lifestyle and diabetes type 2? And how will figuring this out help health…
In recent months and weeks, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been sprawled all over newspapers and newsfeeds. Its symptoms are…
Founder of the ALS Malta Foundation, Bjorn Formosa, gives us unique insight into what it really feels like to live…
This time last year, ALS was one of the hottest topics in the world thanks to the now-infamous Ice Bucket…
Still fresh from a seven day cycling challenge through a number of European countries for charity, Nicky Camilleri, the chairperson…
Our blog from last week, De Soldanis Goes Mass Market, elicited a lot of interest. Follow this interview with one of the researchers…
Written 248 years ago, De Soldanis’s Manuscript is not just a Maltese-to-Latin-to-Italian dictionary, but the immortalisation of the world in…
Breast cancer is diagnosed to fit one of three groups, each of which requires a different treatment method. Shawn Baldacchino,…
The RIDT-funded Mobile Dental Unit is now on the road. But what does it do? And why is it important…
From an early age we are taught that charity should be selfless, but what’s wrong with donating money towards something…
With a fraction of their international competitors’ budgets, the University of Malta Racing team has proven that dedication and perseverance…
Since 1989, every child born in Malta has been tested for hereditary haemoglobin disorders in a project conducted jointly by…
How can differentiating cancerous cells help researchers come up with a better cure for certain cancers? To find out, we…
What is genetic behaviour? And how does understanding its workings help researchers find cures for diseases? Here we chat to…
The University of Malta’s RIDT-funded mobile dental clinic will be hitting the roads in just a few weeks time. To…
