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News article 15 Dec 2020 MRC CASE/DTP 2021/22: Now accepting applications
News article 15 Dec 2020 MRC CASE/DTP 2021/22: Now accepting applications
CeSHHAR logo News article 15 Dec 2020 CeSHHAR to lead one of USAID’s new projects to provide critical HIV healthcare services in Zimbabwe CeSHHAR Zimbabwe will implement the USAID Closing the Gaps: Accelerating and Sustaining HIV Prevention and Care for Sex Workers project in...
“Echis carinatus”: Saw-scaled vipers, like this Indian species Echis carinatus, are one of the most medically important group of venomous snakes in the world. Photo: Wolfgang Wüster. News article 10 Dec 2020 Drug combination protects mice from the lethal effects of snakebite caused by geographically diverse snake species Researchers at LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) have found that a combination of toxin inhibitors could provide the...
News article 9 Dec 2020 Oxford Covid vaccine 'safe and effective', Lancet study shows Vaccine researchers at LSTM want to say a huge thank you to all of the participants and volunteers who took part in the Phase III Oxford COVID-19...
News article 8 Dec 2020 Updated Cochrane Review on probiotics for treating acute infectious diarrhoea There is no evidence that probiotics are effective in treating acute infectious diarrhoea, state the authors of this Cochrane review update. Previous...
Dog and cat best friends walking together outdoor on the grass News article 4 Dec 2020 Evidence of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in cats and dogs from households in Italy Researchers at LSTM have been involved in a collaborative study with colleagues in Italy and Liverpool to discover if cats and dogs are susceptible...
Guinea worm removal from a dog's leg - Photo: Jared Wilson-Aggarwal News article 4 Dec 2020 LSTM led Viewpoint in The Lancet: Certifying Guinea worm eradication - current challenges LSTM’s Emeritus Professor David Molyneux CMG has led a group of international experts of an International Commission discussing the challenges faced...
News article 3 Dec 2020 LIGHT consortium PhD studentships in TB Research: Apply Now
News article 2 Dec 2020 LSTM’s Professor Miriam Taegtmeyer and Dr Tom Wingfield in The Conversation: ‘We will not forget our colleagues who have died’ LSTM’s Professor Miriam Taegtmeyer (Professor of Global Public Health) and Dr Tom Wingfield (Senior Clinical Lecturer) have, today, published an...
First dose of PMC administered News article 2 Dec 2020 Malaria Chemoprevention in the Postdischarge Management of Severe Anemia Researchers, led by LSTM's Professor Feiko ter Kuile, have published in the New England Journal of Medicine details of a trial...
News article 30 Nov 2020 LSTM's BAME Staff Network formally launched Today saw the formal launch of LSTM’s BAME Staff Network with presentations including a talk from Professor Uduak Archibong, MBE, Professor of...
News article 30 Nov 2020 LSTM lights up red to mark World AIDS Day Part of LSTM estates will light up red this week to mark World AIDS Day. LSTM is one of the many well-known landmarks throughout Liverpool’s city...
News article 26 Nov 2020 LSTM Annual Report and Financial Statements 2019-2020 The LSTM Annual Report and Financial Statements 2019-2020 are now available
Jim McKenna News article 26 Nov 2020 LSTM announces Jim McKenna as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees at LSTM’s 121st AGM The Acting Chair of LSTM’s Board of Trustees, Sue Russell, announced during LSTM’s 121st Annual General Meeting that from February 2021, Jim McKenna...
News article 24 Nov 2020 LSTM welcomes BAME staff network focusing on improving racial equality Next week will see the formal launch of LSTM’s BAME Staff Network. The network has been established by staff volunteers to support all UK and...
News article 23 Nov 2020 LSTM’s Professor Nick Feasey awarded over £140 thousand from UKRI to support antibiotic use in East Africa LSTM’s Professor Nick Feasey has been awarded over £140 thousand from the UKRI to provide an essential information package for optimising antibiotic...
High-dependency unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi News article 19 Nov 2020 MLW Programme opens a High Dependency Unit (HDU) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi Malawi Liverpool Wellcome (MLW) Research Programme has designed and opened a High Dependency Unit (HDU) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre...
Agar letters - Photo: Ms Issra Bulgasim & Ms Ellie Allman News article 18 Nov 2020 LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts contributes to Change the Course report released at start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts, Reader in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy & Resistance and LSTM's lead for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), is a member of...
Anopheles stephensi News article 17 Nov 2020 LSTM receives Wellcome grant to investigate the origins, epidemiological importance and control of the invasive malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa Having secured a £3.5 million collaborative award from Wellcome for 4 years, LSTM's Vector Biology Department will lead a trans-disciplinary...
IRS operators head out for a day of work, Credit: Brant Stewart, RTI/PMI 2011 News article 13 Nov 2020 I2I receives new award to improve access to new vector control tools The Innovation to Impact (I2I) team at LSTM have been awarded a $2 million USD follow-on grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I2I works...
Wavertree Church of England pupils washing hands activity News article 5 Nov 2020 Everton Football Club and LSTM announce formal partnership Two of the oldest and most respected organisations on Merseyside, Everton and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), are now working together...
News article 2 Nov 2020 Giving birth to a teenage-sized baby! Isn’t that impossible? Across most of the animal kingdom, offspring are born smaller than their parents. Surprisingly, several families of insects, including tsetse flies,...
iiCON News article 27 Oct 2020 First partner meeting of iiCON, the Infection Innovation Consortium The new multimillion-pound Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), had its initial partner meeting, setting the agenda of their work over the next...
News article 26 Oct 2020 LSTM’s Trustee, Professor Nyovani Madise, has been appointed to a United Nations SDG panel Professor Madise, who is the Director of Research and Development Policy and Head of the Malawi Office of the African Institute for Development...
Malcolm Guy News article 21 Oct 2020 In memoriam: Malcolm Guy 1944 - 2020 It is with deep regret that LSTM has learned of the unexpected death of Malcolm Guy who was Head of LSTM’s Dagnall Teaching Laboratory from 1989 to...
News article 16 Oct 2020 LSTM partner in national ‘Decade of Health’ campaign LSTM is proud to be a part of a new campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which highlights the research being carried out in the...
News article 14 Oct 2020 ARCS receives award from the Global Sepsis Alliance The African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS), a multinational collaboration led by LSTM, has been named one of the winners of this year’s...
News article 13 Oct 2020 LSTM welcomes Professor Dame Tina Lavender LSTM welcomes Professor Dame Tina Lavender to the Department of International Public Health, as she heads up LSTM’s new Centre for Childbirth, Women’...
Dr Sia Morenike Mojama Tengbe News article 9 Oct 2020 World Mental Health Day 2020: one LSTM student’s research on mental health amongst health workers in Sierra Leone “When I feel weak and don’t want to go work, I remember my nurse’s and military pledge, so I need to fulfil my duty…”. LSTM student’s research on...
Bernadette Thomas a Community Health Worker from Bonthe District of Sierra Leone poses next to a photo exhibition about the challenges she and her colleagues face in the course of their work. News article 9 Oct 2020 World Mental Health Day 2020. Protecting the mental health of the global health workforce during COVID-19: Lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak As we approach a second wave of COVID-19 researchers are looking at what can be learnt from countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in order to...
Laurence Westgaph News article 7 Oct 2020 Liverpool Philanthropy, Slavery and Empire : An LSTM Seminar during Black History Month LSTM’s events for Black History Month began today with the first of a specially commissioned lecture series - Decolonisation of Global Health and...
THET logo News article 5 Oct 2020 LSTM and THET launch the UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme LSTM, in partnership with the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET), has launched the UK Partnerships for Health Systems (UKPHS) programme.UKPHS is...
Gaining informed consent for the HH survey News article 2 Oct 2020 LSTM’s researchers through to the next round for funding from ELHRA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund to improve the value of humanitarian programmes in Northern Uganda Researchers from LSTM, led by Professor Joe Valadez, have proposed Metrics for Action (M4Action), a mixed-methods toolkit designed for Non-...
Malaria-carrying mosquito resting on a bed net due to resistance to insecticide News article 2 Oct 2020 CRID awarded grant for the detection of molecular markers of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors The Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) in Cameroon has been awarded a $3.7 million grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for...
Preparing for the pandemic in Sierra Leone News article 1 Oct 2020 LSTM joins major new research consortium analysing African cities A partnership of urban development experts – including LSTM – has been awarded a contract of £32 million to establish the African Cities Research...
Close up of 3d microscopic rod bacteria stock photo News article 1 Oct 2020 LSTM researchers have uncovered a molecular mechanism of an emerging type of antimicrobial resistance in E.coli LSTM researchers have uncovered a molecular mechanism behind an unusual and emerging type of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli (...
News article 25 Sep 2020 Launch of the LIGHT consortium Following the announcement by UK’s Global Health Minister Morton of a new UK aid funded research programme in July, the LIGHT consortium held its...
Local operational teams continue with activities News article 25 Sep 2020 Demonstrating the sustainability of capacity strengthening during a pandemic While many disease control programmes have been halted or reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the capacity strengthening built into a programme for...
News article 23 Sep 2020 Play a key part in the search for an effective COVID-19 vaccine We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to work as research ambassadors for the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials currently taking place in Liverpool.

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