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News article 22 May 2020 LSTM named as a site for Phase III of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine human trials LSTM has begun recruiting frontline health and social care workers to take part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial.
News article 15 May 2020 LSTM led study: While adapting to COVID-19 can Liverpool’s health system learn from the West African Ebola outbreak? LSTM researchers and partner organisations are looking into how Liverpool’s health system has been adjusting to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. It...
News article 13 May 2020 LSTM announces the recipients of the Director’s Catalyst Fund (DCF) 2020 LSTM’s Director’s Catalyst Fund (DCF) 2020 awards have been selected.  This year, six awards will be allocated to early career researchers...
News article 12 May 2020 MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) funding for 2020 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium (TIDC) has been awarded MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) funding for 2020. TIDC is a strategic partnership...
News article 11 May 2020 Nature Biotechnology: 'A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae' A paper published in Nature Biotechnology reports the use of ‘gene drive’ technology in the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.
Echis carinatus India. Photo credit: Wolfgang Wurster News article 6 May 2020 Researchers at LSTM demonstrate a novel way to treat snakebite A paper published in Science Translational Medicine, authored by Dr. Laura-Oana Albulescu and led by Professor Nicholas Casewell at LSTM’s Centre for...
TB waiting room of a hospital in Ahmedabad, India credit Laura Rosu News article 1 May 2020 Shortened multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) regimen reduces costs for health systems by 21 to 25% per patient and helps patients return to work, study shows. The final results of the STREAM 1 health economic analysis have been published today in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Bulletin.
News article 1 May 2020 Virtual Race to Malawi Challenge LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) has come up with a novel idea to support LSTM’s COVID-19 Response and Resilience Fund...
News article 30 Apr 2020 LSTM begins series of virtual vaccine research symposia with global guests and new funding pledge LSTM hosted a unique convening of expertise on vaccination in honour of World Immunization Week 2020.A range of research knowledge was brought to the...
World Immunization Week 2020 banner News article 27 Apr 2020 LSTM & World Immunization Week 2020 During World Immunization Week we celebrate vaccines and the role of vaccine researchers in Global Health. We take this opportunity to celebrate some...
News article 22 Apr 2020 LSTM’s Dr Stuart Ainsworth awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from UKRI Dr. Stuart Ainsworth from LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI), has been awarded a prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship...
News article 22 Apr 2020 Growing support for LSTM’s COVID-19 Response and Resilience Fund in Malawi LSTM recently launched the COVID-19 Response and Resilience Fund to raise vital funds to support cutting-edge research and to address the global...
News article 21 Apr 2020 An open letter from colleagues at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
Printing visors - Photo: Sean Tomlinson News article 21 Apr 2020 LSTM’s 3D printers reallocated to print face shields for NHS frontline staff LSTM’s PhD student Sean Tomlinson has re-allocated LSTM’s 3D printers and uses them to print face shields for NHS staff working on the frontline...
A blood fed tsetse fly - Photo: Daniel Hargrove News article 21 Apr 2020 LSTM led research in Nature Microbiology: how the trypanosome parasite colonizes tsetse flies An LSTM led study on how the deadly trypanosome parasite colonizes tsetse flies has been published by Nature Microbiology. The research was led by Dr...
News article 17 Apr 2020 LSTM co-led research in The Lancet: Effect of long-lasting insecticidal nets with and without piperonyl butoxide on malaria indicators in Uganda (LLINEUP) LSTM’s Professor Martin Donnelly has co-led research investigating the impact of adding the synergist piperonyl butoxide (PBO) to long lasting...
News article 15 Apr 2020 LSTM researchers publish a study looking at health systems during conflict LSTM researchers led by LSTM Professor Joe Valadez, along with colleagues from the Ministry of Health in South Sudan, have recently published a study...
Laitchani Levson developed LF in 2001. His granddaughter Elfrieda is pictured next to his swollen leg - Photo credit: Simon Townsley/Daily Telegraph News article 14 Apr 2020 Malawi eliminates lymphatic filariasis (LF) The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Malawi has eliminated lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem. Eliminating LF was...
Research nurse arriving at CTID to transfer study samples to the laboratory News article 9 Apr 2020 LSTM and Pfizer Inc. announce two new studies on the interaction between S. pneumoniae and SARS-CoV-2 LSTM’s Respiratory Clinical Research Group and Pfizer Inc. are announcing the launch of two new studies to provide insights on the interaction...
News article 8 Apr 2020 BMJ editorial: LSTM clinicians call for rapid near-patient testing for COVID-19 Drs Nick Beeching, Tom Fletcher, and Mike Beadsworth from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s...
News article 7 Apr 2020 LSTM researchers look at the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers An article published on the online platform The Conversation, authored by LSTM’s Dr Tom Wingfield and Professor Miriam Taegtmeyer, looks at the...
News article 7 Apr 2020 LSTM and KEMRI highlight link between female genital schistosomiasis and menstrual hygiene initiatives in Africa Researchers at LSTM and KEMRI have highlighted an underappreciated link between female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) and menstrual hygiene...
News article 3 Apr 2020 LSTM key partner in publishing K4D COVID-19 Health Evidence Summaries LSTM is leading the K4D response in publishing daily COVID-19 Health Evidence Summaries to signpost DFID and other UK government departments to the...
News article 2 Apr 2020 LSTM joins global coalition to accelerate research on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries LSTM Director, Professor David Lalloo, has joined a group of scientists, physicians, funders and policy makers from over 70 institutions from over 30...
News article 1 Apr 2020 LSTM launches fundraising appeal to support COVID-19 research and response in Malawi LSTM has launched a fundraising appeal to support COVID-19 research efforts and frontline response in Malawi, one of the most under-resourced health...
News article 31 Mar 2020 LSTM's Respiratory Clinical Research Group conducts key COVID-19 research in patients & healthcare workers During the current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, LSTM's Respiratory Clinical Research Group wants to know whether people...
News article 31 Mar 2020 LSTM awarded new GHIT grant to fund next stage in anti-Wolbachia drug discovery LSTM, together with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Liverpool (UoL) and Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, has...
News article 30 Mar 2020 Open data and software to support the COVID-19 response in Africa A project led by LSTM researcher, Dr Andy South, is developing open-source software to facilitate the use of health data in Africa. Recent work...
News article 27 Mar 2020 LSTM begins the validation process for the Mologic COVID-19 point-of-need diagnostic test Independent assessment and validation of COVID-19 diagnostic test has been initiated at LSTM by Dr. Emily Adams and her research group, along with...
News article 25 Mar 2020 Blog: Don’t get complacent AMR; we’ll be back
News article 24 Mar 2020 “Antibodies will make a significant contribution to design effective control strategies for COVID-19” LSTM’s Professor Richard Pleass has been interviewed by ProteoGenix about how his ground-breaking work leveraging the Fc region of antibodies could...
News article 24 Mar 2020 World TB Day 2020: LSTM led research published on TB and HIV co-infection In the week of World TB Day, researchers from LSTM have been involved in two recentjournal publications looking at the mortality of Mycobacterium...
News article 24 Mar 2020 A Tale of Two Pandemics: a plea on World TB Day It is the worst of times. We are facing a pandemic. 
News article 23 Mar 2020 World TB Day 2020
News article 20 Mar 2020 COVID-19: LSTM's Dr Tom Wingfield answers questions from LSTM's overseas partners LSTM’s Dr. Tom Wingfield, in conversation with Professor Sally Theobald from the ARISE Hub, has produced a number of videos responding to questions...
News article 17 Mar 2020 LSTM’s HiVE Innovation programme celebrates its inaugural cohort On 3rd March, guests gathered in Accra, Ghana, to celebrate the achievements of the inaugural cohort of the Health Innovation in a Virtual...
News article 12 Mar 2020 LSTM researchers work on new diagnostics for COVID-19 Researchers at LSTM are working to develop and evaluate new diagnostic tests for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 that can be carried out in close to...
News article 9 Mar 2020 LSTM’s Club Tropicana at VG&M’s Family Fun Day! The weekend saw LSTM’s MSc. Tropical Disease Biology students take the family-friendly pop-up science exhibit, Club Tropicana, to the Victoria...
Photo: Elizabeth Poll/MMV News article 8 Mar 2020 MMV and LSTM collaborate to fill data gap on use of antimalarials during pregnancy Geneva and Liverpool, 8 March 2020 On this International Women’s Day, the Swiss-based Product Development Partnership, Medicines for Malaria...
News article 6 Mar 2020 LSTM's Dr Webster Mavhu, awarded New Voices Fellowship LSTM’s Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social science, Dr Webster Mavhu, has been awarded a 2020 New Voices Fellowship at the Aspen Institute –...

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