Prof. Alex Felice Alex Felice is professor of physiology and biochemistry at the University of Malta. He is also director of the Thalassaemia and Molecular Genetics Clinic and of the Clinical Molecular Genetics unit of the Pathology Department at St. Luke's Hospital.

Dr. C. A. Scerri is (Hon) senior registrar and lecturer. Both are responsible for the population-genetics testing programmes in Malta, including thalassaemia, oversee the care of thalassaemia patients, and manage the comprehensive genotyping of all of these patients.

Thalassaemia research programmes at the University of Malta and St. Luke's Hospital investigate the molecular-genetics epidemiology, the expression control of globin genes, and pharmacology.