Rosienne Farrugia is a senior lecturer in genetics, genomics, research methodology and haematology within the Department of Applied Biomedical Science and the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking
Ongoing research interests focus on the genomics of diseases including tetrahydrobiopterin deficiencies (a group of disorders resulting in impaired cognitive and motor development), idiopatic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (a spectrum of disorders causing delayed puberty and infertility), Polycystic kidney disease, Hirschprung disease, Parkinson's disease and Myocardial infarction.
Dr Farrugia is also the coordinator of TrainMALTA, an EU H2020 Twinning grant held with the University of Cambridge, UK and the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven focusing on Interdisciplinary Training in High-Throughput Sequencing, Bioinformatics and Model Systems: Moving towards Clinical applications of Genomics (https://www.um.edu.mt/project/trainmalta)
COST actions CardioRNA: Catalysing transcriptomics research in cardiovascular disease (CA17129) PARQ: Sudden cardiac arrest prediction and resuscitation network: Improving the quality of care (CA19137)
