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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 –...
News article 3 Mar 2020 LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory renews UKAS accreditation LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory (CDPL) has had its United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) accreditation renewed after an...
News article 3 Mar 2020 International Women's Day 2020
News article 27 Feb 2020 In Memoriam: Dr Guy Barnish (1941-2020) It is with great sadness LSTM has learned of the passing of Dr Guy Barnish, retired senior lecturer in Parasitology.
News article 21 Feb 2020 Missed the LSTM Seminar on Tiny Targets – from a research project to large scale vector control implementation? Watch it here
News article 20 Feb 2020 BMJ Best Practice monograph: COVID-19 With the ongoing international outbreak of Covid-19 (formerly novel coronavirus disease), the British Medical Journal has published a timely new Best...
News article 14 Feb 2020 REDRESS and COUNTDOWN extension launched in Liberia The NIHR funded Reducing the Burden of Stigmatising Skin Diseases (REDRESS) research programme was launched in Liberia, in combination with the...
News article 13 Feb 2020 Missed the LSTM seminar by Maya Goodfellow on 'The role of race in UK international development discourse'? Here's the recording
News article 13 Feb 2020 LSTM's Dr Ryan Robinson nominated in the 2020 North West Research and Innovation Awards Clinical Research Fellow at LSTM, Dr Ryan Robinson, has been nominated for a Rising Star award for 2020 North West Research and Innovation Awards.
News article 31 Jan 2020 LSTM scholarships supporting 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife In celebration of International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, LSTM is offering a number of scholarships for those wanting to undertake the...
News article 28 Jan 2020 World NTD Day 2020 #BeatNTDs: For good. For all
News article 27 Jan 2020 LSTM to host high level Global Health research symposium as UK prepares to secure worldwide funding for the future of global vaccinations Over 100 scientists, doctors, along with representatives from industry, charities and government agencies to meet in Liverpool. Focus on the...
SnakeOrganoids: Credit Ravian Van Ineveld Copyright- Princess Maxima Center For Pediatric Oncology News article 22 Jan 2020 Venom-producing snake organoids developed in the lab Professor Nick Casewell from LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) has been involved in a ground-breaking project that has...
News article 22 Jan 2020 Next important phase in infectious diseases research in Liverpool launched Professor Dame Sally Davies, former Chief Medical Officer and current UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, visited Liverpool today to help...
News article 21 Jan 2020 Introducing REDRESS: LSTM's latest project reducing the burden of severe stigmatising skin diseases LSTM has received nearly £3.5 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to help improve the care of people affected by severe...
News article 16 Jan 2020 TEDxLSTM talks now available on TEDx YouTube channel The talks were part of the inaugural TEDxLSTM event, independently conceptualised and organised by a committee of MRC DTP PhD students and held late...
Credit: Dr. Thomas Massaquoi of 34 Military Hospital, Trials Clinician: RAPIDE-TKM trial team News article 14 Jan 2020 Stepping up to the challenge: studying drug dosage during an Ebola outbreak A specialist technique used to study drugs has been completed for the first time during an outbreak of Ebola virus disease.
MRC DTP students including some of the DTP management team News article 14 Jan 2020 Call to apply for the MRC DTP/CASE PhD studentships for the academic year 2020-21 now open LSTM and Lancaster University have announced that the call to apply for the MRC DTP/CASE PhD studentships for the academic year 2020-21 is now open.
News article 10 Jan 2020 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture - Dr David Nabarro CBE on 'Engaging in complex issues to secure the future'
Man using HIV self-testing kit in Zimbabwe - photo credit: UNITAID News article 8 Jan 2020 LSTM researchers find that a peer-led programme of support for adolescents living with HIV results in reduction in HIV treatment failure LSTM researchers based in Zimbabwe have found that a peer-led programme of support for adolescents living with HIV results in a significant reduction...

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