The President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca presided over an event focusing on ‘Breast Cancer Research in Malta’. The University of Malta has been actively involved in breast cancer research for a number of years.

Researchers participated in European Union funded projects in collaboration with foreign Universities.  Last year two NGOs, ALIVE Charity Foundation and Action for Breast Cancer Foundation, have assisted in raising the sum of €80,000 which will be utilised to finance the second PhD scholarship. The public talk included presentations by Prof. Christian Scerri, Head of the Biochemistry and Physiology Department within the Faculty of Medicine, and an intervention by PhD student Shawn Baldacchino.