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News article 3 Jun 2019 Drones trialled to assist in TB diagnosis in Nepal LSTM and partners are launching a new project trialling the use of drones to combat tuberculosis in some of Nepal’s most rural and inaccessible areas.
News article 28 May 2019 LSTM and World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019 On the occasion of World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019, it is a good opportunity to highlight LSTM’s growing contribution to research and global action...
News article 28 May 2019 LSTM’s Club Tropicana at the Bollington Festival LSTM staff and students took Club Tropicana to the Bollington Festival on the 26th May in the town of Bollington near Macclesfield, Northwest England.
News article 24 May 2019 WHO launches strategy on snakebite envenoming - with LSTM input LSTM Professor Robert Harrison, Head of LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions (CSRI) is in Geneva, Switzerland, for the official...
News article 23 May 2019 'Journey to the Tropics' at Pint of Science Liverpool For the third year running Liverpool hosted Pint of Science, an annual three-day festival that brings engaging science and latest research findings...
News article 16 May 2019 IAVI and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to Partner in Scientific Consortium for New Snakebite Therapies Partners in five countries will discover and develop monoclonal antibodies to treat critical illness from snake venom, which harms nearly 3 million...
News article 16 May 2019 LSTM: “Wellcome programme to support snakebite treatment research a watershed moment” LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions (CSRI) views the announcement of a new £80 million programme of Wellcome Trust funding to...
Dr Khumbo Kalua inspecting atypical eggs News article 8 May 2019 Detection of unusual hybrid schistosomes in Malawi LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard is senior author on a new paper in which researchers from the UK and Malawi have described the unusual occurrence...
News article 8 May 2019 LSTM’s researchers at Pint of Science on the 22nd May at Oh Me Oh My. LSTM’s Tom Wingfield, Terry Kana and Joanna Furnival-Adams will be speaking at Liverpool’s Pint of Science on the 22nd May at Oh Me Oh My (West...
News article 3 May 2019 International Day of the Midwife
News article 2 May 2019 Equality in Science Symposium Tickets are selling fast for the Equality in Science (EiS) symposium, being hosted at LSTM on Tuesday 4th June. Organised by a group of PhD students...
News article 1 May 2019 Cochrane Review: MVA85A vaccine to enhance BCG for preventing tuberculosis Tuberculosis has been killing people for centuries and the prospect of a vaccine to stop this has eluded scientists for years. Initial funding,...
News article 25 Apr 2019 LSTM researchers runners up in Wellcome Data Re-use Prize: Malaria Three LSTM researchers (two of them PhD students) have taken second place in the Wellcome Data Re-use Prize : Malaria for reusing data from the...
Image ©WHO/M. Nieuwenhof - Vaccination facility in Lilongwe News article 24 Apr 2019 MLW Programme partner in first malaria vaccine roll out in Malawi The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome (MLW) Clinical Research Programme, of which LSTM is a partner, is proud to be taking part in the pilot scheme for the...
News article 23 Apr 2019 World Malaria Day 2019
News article 18 Apr 2019 LSTM will return to the Bluedot Festival for a third time this summer LSTM staff and PHD students will be out in force at the annual three-day Bluedot festival in Jodrell Bank Observatory Cheshire this summer (19th -...
News article 15 Apr 2019 LSTM's new online course: The Professional Diploma in Travel Health A small number of places are still available for LSTM’s new online course – The Professional Diploma in Travel Health.
Course participants in Zanzibar News article 11 Apr 2019 LSTM delivers new intrapartum care course in Zanzibar A team from the LSTM travelled to Zanzibar as part of a UNICEF-funded implementation research project to improve maternal and newborn health services.
News article 10 Apr 2019 NEJM Perspective: 'Shifting the Paradigm — Applying Universal Standards of Care to Ebola Virus Disease' LSTM’s Senior Clinical Lecturer Dr Shevin Jacob is corresponding author on a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
News article 4 Apr 2019 Dr Samantha Donnellan reaches FameLab finals LSTM’s Dr Samantha Donnellan has made it to the final of FameLab UK which will be held as part of the Cheltenham Science Festival in June.
News article 2 Apr 2019 Professor Martin Donnelly appointed as Head of LSTM’s Department of Vector Biology LSTM is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Martin Donnelly as Head of the Department of Vector Biology.
News article 1 Apr 2019 LSTM, MSF and HCRI launch a new academic programme to train the humanitarian leaders of the future To mark the launch of a new programme, humanitarian and academic experts from three leading organisations met last week at Liverpool School of...
News article 29 Mar 2019 Research into tropical eye worm, Loa loa, yields new tests to rapidly assess safety of anti-filarial drugs Researchers at the LSTM’s Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (CDDR), and University of Buea, Cameroon, have developed new models of the tropical eye...
News article 26 Mar 2019 Widely used malaria treatment to prevent malaria in pregnant women at risk of failing in areas where drug resistance is rising A global team of researchers, led by a research team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), are calling for a review of drug-based...
News article 22 Mar 2019 It’s time to target tuberculosis in pregnancy On 24th March 1882, Dr Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis (TB). Whilst tremendous efforts by...
News article 21 Mar 2019 World TB Day 2019
News article 21 Mar 2019 From the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group : A special collection on diagnosing tuberculosis The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG), which has its editorial base at LSTM, helps prepare systematic reviews related to the diagnosis and...
A typical example of improved housing beside a mosquito-producing rice field in rural Tanzania, constructed using bricks, timber and iron sheeting plus netting screens fitted over the windows. News article 20 Mar 2019 Protecting houses against mosquitoes with netting window screens can suppress malaria vector populations and dramatically reduce human parasite infection prevalence. In an article published in Lancet Planetary Health, a team from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI),...
News article 20 Mar 2019 Researchers develop a method to test for the enzyme that confers insecticide resistance in mosquitoes Researchers from LSTM have detected DNA mutations conferring resistance to bednet insecticides and designed a new assay to detect resistance in...
News article 14 Mar 2019 NEW: LSTM Prospectus 2019/20 now available
News article 14 Mar 2019 STREAM clinical trial results prove that nine-month treatment regimen for MDR-TB is as effective as 20-month regimen A nine to 11-month treatment regimen is as effective in treating multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as the 20 to 24-month regimen recommended...
Dr Henry Mwandumba, deputy director of MLW, and Dr Fumbani Limani, clinical research intern of MLW unveiling a plaque to mark the occasion News article 12 Mar 2019 MLW programme partners launch CREATOR project in Malawi LSTM’s Director, Professor David Lalloo, has been in Malawi for the launch of a new project to build the Clinical Research and Training Open Resource...
Dr Waleed receiving the award from deputy ambassador Mr Richard Oppenheim News article 12 Mar 2019 LSTM alumnus Dr Waleed Alsalem one of the winners of the UK Alumni Awards 2019 in Saudi Arabia Dr Waleed Alsalem won the Professional Achievement Award at a ceremony hosted by the British Council and British ambassador at the British embassy to...
News article 11 Mar 2019 LSTM saddened by the death of Dr Grace Kariuki in the Ethiopian Airways crash Dr Grace Kariuki was the lung health representative of the Kenyan Ministry of Health at the launch of ‘Tupumue’, a partnership on non-communicable...
News article 10 Mar 2019 NEW! Buist Pathways to Leadership Award Thanks to a generous donation from Professor Emerita Sonia Buist, we are delighted to announce this unique opportunity for PATS MECOR ...
News article 7 Mar 2019 LSTM's Accelerator Research Clinic wins one of the 2019 North West Research and Innovation Awards The Respiratory Resarch Team from LSTM's Accelerator Research Clinic (ARC) has won the Team of the Year category of the 2019 North West Coast Resarch...
News article 7 Mar 2019 LSTM celebrates International Women’s Day 2019 Staff at LSTM have been hosting and organising a wide range of initiatives and activities for International Women’s Day, which is always held on the...
Professor Stothard (seated) teaching fresh water sampling to MSc students News article 3 Mar 2019 British Society for Parasitology (BSP) awards its C.A. Wright Medal to LSTM Professor Russell Stothard The Society announced its 2019 awards via social media. The Wright medal is presented annually since 1985 and recognises the outstanding contribution...
Attendees at the Global Stakeholders Workshop meeting in Nairobi - Photo Credit: African Academy of Sciences News article 1 Mar 2019 LSTM's Centre for Capacity Research facilitates a new standard for good research management practice LSTM’s Centre for Capacity Research (CCR) facilitated a workshop hosted by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in Nairobi last week. It marked the...
News article 28 Feb 2019 The application process is now OPEN for the MRC Skills Development Fellowships programme

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