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News article 4 Dec 2018 LSTM's December Open Day LSTM welcomed prospective students as it opened its doors for December’s postgraduate open day.
News article 30 Nov 2018 LSTM 2017-2018 Annual report now available The 2017-2018 LSTM Annual Report and Financial Statements are now available to view online. 
News article 30 Nov 2018 LSTM’s 119th Annual General Meeting celebrates the contribution of departing Director Professor Janet Hemingway LSTM’s 119th Annual General Meeting (AGM) has taken place. The meeting saw LSTM’s vice-presidents, the Board of Trustees and Members along with staff...
News article 29 Nov 2018 Latest Cochrane review looks at pyrethroid-PBO nets for preventing malaria in Africa Researchers from LSTM have confirmed that using pyrethroid-PBO treated nets to prevent malaria is more effective at killing mosquitoes in areas where...
News article 27 Nov 2018 MRC CASE/DTP 2018-19: Open for Applications
News article 19 Nov 2018 LSTM’s Professor Feiko ter Kuile elected ASTMH Honorary International Fellow LSTM’s Professor Feiko ter Kuile has been elected as an Honorary International Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH...
News article 19 Nov 2018 Does test-based prescription of treatment for malaria improve treatment seeking and satisfaction? LSTM’s Dr Justin Pulford is first author on a new study published today in the journal BMJ Global Health, which examines the impact of an improved...
News article 16 Nov 2018 Nick Herbert MP – global political leadership to end TB: A report from the UNHLM LSTM played host to the Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Global tuberculosis (TB), Nick Herbert MP as he came to deliver feedback...
News article 15 Nov 2018 LSTM’s Adam Roberts awarded €50,000 to set up international network to address AMR LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts has been awarded funding to establish a network of European and African researchers looking to address the problems of...
Duncan Preston pictured left News article 13 Nov 2018 LSTM’s Finance Director, Duncan Preston, named NW Finance Director of the Year 2018. LSTM’s Finance Director, Duncan Preston, has been named Finance Director of the Year 2018 for the region at an awards ceremony held recently at the...
Wanjiku and Ingeborg using available resources to demonstrate the use of Ultrasound in vascular access and biopsy training (chicken breasts with olives hidden inside!) News article 8 Nov 2018 Building Capacity in Kenya - IMPALA Point-Of-Care Ultrasound training & supervision Wanjiku Kagima a PhD Student on the IMPALA programme completed some important practical training in Kenya in September 2018. Wanjku, who’s PhD...
News article 8 Nov 2018 IMPALA’s Maia Lesosky awarded prestigious Newton Advanced Fellowship Dr Maia Lesosky, Assistant Professor at the University of Cape Town and partner on IMPALA (International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung...
News article 30 Oct 2018 Study shows how flu impairs immune control of pneumococcal bacteria LSTM’s Dr Simon Jochems is first author on a paper which has been published in the journal Nature Immunology, looking at how infection with influenza...
LSTM Professor Alister Craig talking to the media News article 25 Oct 2018 Opening of 'Galkoff's and the secret life of Pembroke Place' exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool The exhibition 'Galkoff’s and the secret life of Pembroke Place' formally opened at the Museum of Liverpool. The work, carried out by National...
News article 23 Oct 2018 Latest study: Climate change and African trypanosomiasis vector populations in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley LSTM’s Dr Jennifer Lord is first author on a paper looking at the impact of climate change on the vectors of sleeping sickness in Africa.
News article 18 Oct 2018 LSTM and partners lead group discussions at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria & NTDs The LSTM COUNTDOWN Consortium and Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) were invited to lead and particpate in the All Party Parliamentary...
News article 18 Oct 2018 Tracing the history of TB dispersal through global migration LSTM’s Dr Maxine Caws is part of a team of researchers looking at how colonial migration and local adaptation have shaped the global expansion of a...
News article 17 Oct 2018 PIIVeC training at LSTM The Partnership for Increasing the Impact of Vector Control (PIIVeC), co-ordinated by LSTM’s Professor Hilary Ranson, are holding a training event in...
News article 15 Oct 2018 Human and cattle baited decoys trap outdoor-biting mosquitoes A new study led by a LSTM PhD student has shown that human and cattle decoys are able to trap malaria mosquitoes outdoors, which is important in the...
News article 11 Oct 2018 Health Systems Research 2018: LSTM Professor Theobald et al in The Lancet on Implementation Research While acting as one of the local hosts for the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR 2018(link is external)) taking place in...
News article 11 Oct 2018 Nose picking and rubbing can spread pneumonia causing bacteria Researchers from LSTM, along with colleagues from the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, have completed a study that shows that pneumonia-causing...
News article 11 Oct 2018 LSTM launches MSc Global Health at the Fifth Global symposium of Health Systems Research Against the backdrop of more than 2000 international delegates meeting in Liverpool to discuss health systems research, LSTM has launched a new...
News article 11 Oct 2018 LSTM Scientific Conference: The role of vector control in disease elimination As part of the two days celebrating the work of Professor Janet Hemingway CBE FRS as she retires as LSTM’s Director, a scientific conference was held...
News article 9 Oct 2018 This is your Life Scientific - Professor Janet Hemingway celebrated ahead of her retirement as the Director of LSTM To mark the retirement as Director of Professor Janet Hemingway, LSTM invited her family, friends and colleagues through the years to a special event...
News article 5 Oct 2018 B!RTH plays performed at Wellcome Collection in London The B!RTH Project, which is coordinated by LSTM, performed two of its plays in front of an invited audience at the Wellcome Collection in...
News article 4 Oct 2018 Emerging Voices 2018 at LSTM LSTM is playing host to 2018’s Emerging Voices for Global Health meeting ahead of the Fifth Symposium on Health Systems Research which begins in...
News article 2 Oct 2018 £2 million ARCS project holds inaugural meeting in Liverpool The African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS), a NIHR-funded research group, held its inaugural launch meeting in Liverpool.
News article 1 Oct 2018 LSTM’s Dr Shevin Jacob receives a leadership award from University of Harvard Alumni Association LSTM’s Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dr Shevin Jacob, has been honoured with a Leadership Award in Public Health Practice from the Harvard T.H. Chan...
News article 26 Sep 2018 LSTM based IMPALA programme supports World Lung Day with inflatable lungs Researchers and programme staff from The International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health & TB in Africa (IMPALA), spent the day...
© Zikmund Bartonίček The image “Shedding” depicts exposing snails (Bulinus and Indoplanorbis) to sunlight to provoke trematode – and especially schistosome – cercariae shedding in Barombi Kotto, Cameroon. This research will help efforts to tackle NTDs, including schistosomiasis. News article 24 Sep 2018 LSTM MSc student wins top prize in the Beat NTDs photo contest. As the Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) Annual Meeting begins in Addis Ababa, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (...
News article 21 Sep 2018 Swab and Send at New Scientist Live in London The New Scientist Live Exhibition opened this week at the ExCel exhibition centre in London with LSTM's Dr Adam Roberts’s Swab and Send project as...
News article 19 Sep 2018 LSTM and TB Alliance collaborate to develop new TB therapies This new partnership is supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to research drug regimens to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis
News article 18 Sep 2018 LSTM’s Dr Grant Hughes recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. LSTM’s senior lecturer Dr Grant Hughes has been announced as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship.
Copyright 2015 John Gray India baby News article 17 Sep 2018 World Prematurity Day - 17th November 2018 Worldwide, an estimated 15 million babies are born prematurely (before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy) every year. These babies face the highest...
News article 17 Sep 2018 IMPALA supports set-up of first ever air quality data monitoring sites in Cameroon and Benin The LuLi project’s ‘Exposure to air pollution in adults with chronic non-communicable respiratory diseases (NCD-R) in Benin and Cameroon: a cross-...
News article 14 Sep 2018 LSTM led partnership awarded £1.5 million for NTD drug development An LSTM led partnership has been awarded nearly £1.5 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) for the pre-clinical development of a candidate...
News article 10 Sep 2018 New paper shows conserved networks of collateral susceptibility to antibiotics in the human pathogen Escherichia coli LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts is a co-author on a new paper published in Nature Communications which reports conserved collateral susceptibility to...
News article 5 Sep 2018 LSTM Emeritus Professor David Molyneux receives Mary Kingsley Medal LSTM has awarded Emeritus Professor and senior Professorial Fellow David Molyneux its highest honour, the Mary Kingsley Medal, in recognition of...
News article 3 Sep 2018 The British Society for Parasitology Autumn Symposium in Liverpool The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) held its Autumn Symposium at the University of Liverpool’s Foresight Centre, organised this year by LSTM’s...
News article 31 Aug 2018 The Global Asthma Report LSTM is proud to have contributed to a global campaign to combat asthma being led by the Global Asthma Network, as they launch the Global Asthma...

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