Patents provide inventors or licencees with exclusivity rights over an invention for a 20-year period. The University of Malta helps researchers who wish to obtain patents for their discoveries through its Knowledge Transfer Office
Prof. Vella congratulated the inventors, and said he hoped that they would serve as an inspiration to other researchers. Hopefully there would be more inventions worthy of a patent granted certificate next year, he added.
Pro-Rector for research and knowledge transfer Saviour Zammit said each of the inventions being celebrated had undergone a rigorous examination process to establish their novelty and originality.
Their collective effect on the quality of academic research is something the entire University community should be proud of, Prof. Zammit said.
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Local start-ups seeking funding from Malta Enterprise will soon be able to access pre-application support and mentoring from a University of Malta business incubator.
The support will be made available thanks to a memorandum of understanding signed between Malta Enterprise and the University on Tuesday that sets out a new framework of support for start-ups and ensures support through its Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation.
Successful applicants will be able to access mentoring and support from TAKEOFF, CEBI’s incubator facility, over a one-year period post-award.
The MOU was signed by Malta Enterprise CEO Kurt Farrugia and University of Malta rector Alfred Vella and hailed by ministers Miriam Dalli and Justyne Caruana.
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An agreement has been signed between the Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta and the Archdiocese of Malta providing for a house located at the entrance of the Archbishop’s Seminary in Tal-Virtù, Rabat, to be used as a residence for student-priests from developing countries.
The two-storey house is currently being completely refurbished. It will be able to host up to five priests who would be reading for a Licentiate in Pastoral Theology at the Faculty of Theology in Malta. There are currently four student-priests reading for this degree, three of whom are from Zambia and one from Malawi, but they have been offered temporary accommodation by welcoming communities till the house is completed.
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A team of University of Malta researchers has set off to unravel the little-known processes behind elusive tumours in the pituitary - a small gland under the brain.
This gland helps regulate hormones and various other processes in the body, so when a tumour develops there, patients may experience a wide spectrum of severe symptoms such as vision impairment and changes in metabolism.
The research is being made possible through a €1.2 million grant by the Emanuele Cancer Research Foundation Malta (ECRFM).
The university said that because of significant knowledge gap in the role of the immune system in pituitary tumours, academic Josanne Vassallo painstakingly set up a Maltese pituitary tumour tissue bank which has been in operation since the year 2000.