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2019 Hemingway Award recipient Dr Caroline Harper, Chief Executive of Sightsavers News article 10 Mar 2021 The Hemingway Award: open for nominations The Hemingway Award – a joint award between RSTMH and the LSTM – recognises Professor Janet Hemingway’s achievements in delivering and encouraging...
C. diphtheriae By Microrao - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, News article 8 Mar 2021 Diphtheria risks becoming ‘major global threat’ again as it evolves resistance to antimicrobials Diphtheria – a relatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in future could...
Professor Daniela Ferreria News article 5 Mar 2021 International Women's Day 2021
News article 2 Mar 2021 Discovery of a mechanism of lymphatic disease leads to new opportunities to treat filariasis morbidity A research team led by investigators at LSTMs Centres for Drugs & Diagnostics (CDD) and Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) have determined a...
L-R: Sophie Owen, Remy Hoek Spaans, Katerina Cheliotis, Rachel Byrne News article 1 Mar 2021 LSTM researchers enter YES20 competition LSTM’s PhD students Sophie Owen, Katerina Cheliotis, Rachel Byrne and Remy Hoek Spaans took part in the YES20 competition. YES is an innovative...
News article 26 Feb 2021 Find out more about how you can donate to the #BumpItForward campaign
A house in one of the trial villages with screening plus EaveTubes installed. Photo: Daniel Lesher (Penn State University) News article 26 Feb 2021 Lethal house lures reduce incidence of malaria in children A new type of housing modification can reduce malaria incidence among children by around 40-50%, according to an international team of researchers,...
Baristocracy Coffee Roasters owners, Kate Hudson and Alex Forsyth News article 25 Feb 2021 Coffee roastery donates some of its profits to support LSTM’s ‘Bump It Forward' campaign A North Tyneside coffee roastery is donating a percentage of its profits to help protect healthcare workers in Africa as they battle the second wave...
Ari tribe woman cooking injera on the open fire. Jinka, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia. News article 23 Feb 2021 LSTM researchers review how to ensure quality care for chronic respiratory diseases in LMICs Researchers from LSTM have led a review in The Lancet looking at chronic respiratory diseases in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and how they...
Female Doctor Taking Coronavirus Sample From Man News article 17 Feb 2021 Results of first COVID patient survey published LSTM’s Dr Tom Wingfield has led a team of doctors and student doctors at the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust in recording the...
Sister Magombo (left), Lead Nurse and Dr Rachael Burke, PhD researcher and clinician, at Zomba Central Hospital receiving PPE purchased with Bump It Forward donations. News article 17 Feb 2021 Bump It Forward campaign donations start to make an impact LSTM's Bump It Forward fundraising campaign raised over £100,000 in donations so far, to help protect frontline health workers in Africa. 
News article 16 Feb 2021 Volunteers Needed. Are you… 60-69 years old? Generally well? A non-smoker? We want to learn about a bacteria called Pneumococcus which is the main cause of pneumonia.
Commissioner of Health in Oyo addressing the antenatal and postnatal care training participants News article 16 Feb 2021 Successful completion of phase 1 of an implementation programme to Improve quality of antenatal and postnatal services in Nigeria LSTM’s Global Fund and Allied Programmes Unit (GFAPU)  working in cooperation with the State Ministries of Health in Kaduna and Oyo and the...
News article 13 Feb 2021 COVID-19 drug testing platform AGILE receives government funding to fast-track clinical trials The innovative COVID-19 drug testing platform AGILE, in which LSTM is a partner, has received a multi-million pound award from the UK government...
Hydroxychloroquine bottle held in hand in doctors office with patient News article 11 Feb 2021 New Cochrane Review shows chloroquine doesn’t help people with COVID-19 Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce deaths from COVID-19, and probably does not reduce the number of people needing mechanical ventilation, state the...
Sports equipment News article 10 Feb 2021 Transmission risk of COVID-19 from sports equipment A team, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's Dr Emily Adams, has investigated the transmission risk of COVID-19 from sports equipment,...
News article 9 Feb 2021 LSTM divests from fossil fuel companies Following a decision by its Board of Trustees, LSTM is now in the final stage of divesting from fossil fuel companies.
The QI team at Atakpame Regional Hospital News article 8 Feb 2021 Successful completion of implementation programme in Togo during the COVID-19 pandemic LSTM’s Global Fund and Allied Programmes Unit (GFAPU) have successfully completed the Quality Improvement of Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria Services...
News article 8 Feb 2021 Dr Fiona Marston becomes LSTM’s Entrepreneur in Residence Dr Fiona Marston is to become LSTM’s Entrepreneur in Residence after being awarded a place on the Royal Society’s scheme for 2021.
News article 8 Feb 2021 £65,000 fundraising milestone reached in ‘Bump It Forward’ Campaign A fundraising campaign launched by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has reached a new milestone today and is hurtling towards a £100,...
News article 4 Feb 2021 #BumpItForward
News article 4 Feb 2021 Volunteer for the COM COV Clinical Trial COM COV Clinical Trial Oxford Vaccine Group at LSTMComparing COVID-19 Vaccine Schedule Combinations (Pfizer and Astra Zeneca)
News article 3 Feb 2021 World's first COVID-19 vaccine alternating dose study launches in Liverpool COVID-19 vaccine alternating dose study launched today in the UKStudy will examine using different vaccines for the two doses, as well as different...
News article 1 Feb 2021 LSTM lights up in rainbow colours for LGBTQ+ History Month LSTM’s estate will light up in the colours of the rainbow to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ History Month this February.
Jim McKenna News article 31 Jan 2021 Jim McKenna takes over as Chair of Trustees at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is delighted to announce that Jim McKenna has formally taken up the position of Chair of the Board of...
News article 29 Jan 2021 LSTM Graduation 2020 LSTM has held its annual graduation ceremony today, being held virtually and delayed from its usual December slot because of COVID-19. This will mark...
News article 27 Jan 2021 LSTM launches 125th anniversary Webinar Series LSTM’s launched its Future Focus Webinar Series with a discussion entitled – ‘The major challenges for global health in a post-COVID-19 world’,...
Photo by James Gathany, Dr. Bill Atkinson, USCDCP News article 26 Jan 2021 LSTM researchers investigate the impact of pneumococcal colonisation on immune responses to live attenuated influenza vaccine LSTM researchers, led by Dr Elena Mitsi, have investigated the impact of pneumococcal colonisation on immune responses to live attenuated influenza...
Tsetse fly. Dhruv Patel, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons News article 25 Jan 2021 LSTM-led research validates the repurposing of nitisinone to control tsetse fly populations and transmission of African trypanosomiasis LSTM’s researchers, alongside a talented cohort of colleagues in Argentina, Brazil, Kenya, University of Liverpool, the Crick Institute and LSHTM,...
News article 25 Jan 2021 LSTM receives £3 million from Research England Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been awarded just over £3 million from Research England’s Specialist Institutions Fund, which has been set...
©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London and Callum Mair: Naja nubiae slow motion spitting. News article 21 Jan 2021 Researchers demonstrate snake venom evolution for defensive purposes Researchers from LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) have led an international team investigating the evolutionary origins...
News article 21 Jan 2021 LSTM launches Bump It Forward campaign LSTM has today launched a new campaign, Bump It Forward, which aims to get donors to give the equivalent cost of their COVID vaccine as it rolls out...
News article 15 Jan 2021 Neonatal morbidity and mortality in Kenya and Nigeria – Results of a LSTM led study The LSTM led Neonatal Nutrition Network has published in PLOS ONE the results from a study looking at patient populations, priority...
News article 13 Jan 2021 Excalibur rapid SARS-COV-2 antigen screening test, validated by LSTM, granted MHRA approval Excalibur Healthcare Services Ltd, a UK-based provider of high-quality medical products and services, has announced that its Rapid SARS COV-2 Antigen...
News article 12 Jan 2021 Two new therapies to be tested in ground-breaking COVID-19 clinical trial Two new drug therapies are to be studied in patients as part of the ground-breaking AGILE clinical trial platform, with the hope of finding...
News article 8 Jan 2021 Dr Nick Beeching appointed as Emeritus Professor of Tropical and Infectious Diseases Dr Nick Beeching has been appointed Emeritus Professor of Tropical and Infectious Diseases at LSTM in recognition of his long and illustrious career...
News article 5 Jan 2021 LSTM alumnus Dr Ifeanyi Nsofor on New African Magazine list of 100 Most Influential Africans LSTM alumnus Dr Ifeanyi Nsofor, currently CEO of the African health consultancy group EpiAFRIC, has been selected onto the 100 most influential...
News article 24 Dec 2020 Mologic Receives CE Mark Approval for Professional-Use COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test
News article 17 Dec 2020 LSTM's Christmas closure from 18th of December to 4th of January
Spray being tested in LSTM lab News article 17 Dec 2020 New spray, co-developed with the British Army and tested by LSTM, kills coronavirus in under 60 seconds An Essex inventor working alongside the British Army has created a ‘military grade’ disinfectant spray, tested by LSTM, which kills all...

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