Professor Fenech graduated with a PhD degree in molecular pharmacology from the University of Nottingham in 2003. His research focussed on the transcriptional regulation of muscarininc receptors in airway disease, and he has maintained airway molecular pharmacology as his main research interest.
In 2012 he was appointed Head of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and was later promoted to Associate Professor with effect from January 2016. Professor Fenech is also a current member of the Pharmacogenomics Working Party of the European Medicines Agency and has been appointed to several University committees. He holds collaborative research activities with local and foreign research groups and has supervised and participated in the examination of several Masters and Doctoral dissertations.
Professor Fenech holds a lecturing portfolio that focuses on molecular pharmacology, and contributes to several study-units delivered to different degree courses in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Science. He is also the co-ordinator of several study-units delivered by the department.
Genetic contributors to drug action
Molecular pharmacology with special reference to lung disease
