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News article 11 May 2018 IMPALA collaboration supports proposal writing workshop in Liverpool The IMPALA collaboration and LSTM's Department for International Public Health supported a proposal writing workshop in Liverpool, the aim of which...
News article 11 May 2018 LSTM's Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health supports the Ministry of Public Health to conduct a national quality of care survey in Niger LSTM's Centre of Maternal and Newborn Care (CMNH) is working with the Department of Mother and Child Health (Direction de la Santé Mère-Enfant, DSME...
News article 1 May 2018 World Asthma Day Asthma is the commonest chronic disease affecting children and one of the commonest chronic diseases affecting adults. 
News article 26 Apr 2018 Swab and Send at Superbugs Late This week LSTM's Dr Adam Roberts took the Swab and Send project to London for Science Lates at the Science Museum, an event which ran alongside the...
News article 26 Apr 2018 Fighting pneumonia with new research clinic LSTM’s Experimental Human Pneumococcal Colonisation (EHPC) team have opened a state-of-the-art research clinic in the new Accelerator building,...
News article 23 Apr 2018 LFC Foundation and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine team up to deliver new Malawi project Liverpool Football Club’s official charity, LFC Foundation, and LSTM launched a joint programme to encourage youngsters in Malawi to access education...
News article 23 Apr 2018 IMPALA hosts successful series of meetings in Durban This week 11 African countries were represented by 14 partners at the IMPALA meetings in Durban, South Africa, alongside UK colleagues. The meetings...
News article 20 Apr 2018 PNAS: Rapid selection of a pyrethroid metabolic enzyme CYP9K1 by operational malaria control activities LSTM researchers, with partners from several international institutions, have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide...
News article 19 Apr 2018 Researchers at LSTM take a novel approach to snakebite treatment Researchers at LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit are looking at treatment for snakebite in a completely different way and have shown that it...
News article 17 Apr 2018 Professor Hilary Ranson delivering Plenary talk at 7th MIM Pan African Malaria Conference LSTM’s Professor Hilary Ranson is a plenary speaker at the 7th MIM Pan African Malaria Conference being held in Dakar, Senegal this week.
News article 16 Apr 2018 New mathematical parameters to model the impact of Wolbachia infection for disease control LSTM’s Dr Gabriela Gomes is senior author on a new study which outlines the importance of using variation in mosquito susceptibility as a parameter...
News article 13 Apr 2018 Professor David Molyneux announced as Editor-in-Chief of International Health, the journal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has announced Professor David Molyneux, Emeritus Professor and Senior Professorial Fellow...
News article 12 Apr 2018 Insecticide-resistant malaria vectors must be tackled LSTM’s Dr Gerry Killeen and Professor Hilary Ranson have called for the international community to be bolder in adopting new products for existing...
News article 12 Apr 2018 Ultrasound method to predict worm burden in the hunt for new drugs to treat Lymphatic Filariasis Researchers from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD), have developed an ultrasound technique to reliably detect infection with...
News article 10 Apr 2018 IMPALA supports PATS Spirometry Training in Ethiopia The Pan-African Thoracic Society (PATS) and the Ethiopian Thoracic Society (ETS) hosted a Foundational Spirometry Certificate of Competence Short...
News article 6 Apr 2018 LSTM Group’s income tops half a billion pounds for the first time in its history LSTM has reached another milestone as its orderbook for research grants and contracts income topped half a billion pounds for the first time in its...
News article 5 Apr 2018 Dr Mary McCauley of LSTM's Centre for Maternal & Newborn Health wins three RCOG prizes Dr Mary McCauley recently attended the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in London, UK, to be awarded three prizes...
News article 5 Apr 2018 Lancet Taskforce Economics: ‘World health is central to Sustainable Development’ Researchers from LSTM’s Health Economics team have been looking at the links between socioeconomic inequities and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in...
Wycliffe Onyango, clinical officer, draws blood for mosquito feeding from one of the study patients [patient gave written consent to publish photo] News article 28 Mar 2018 LSTM study shows drug that kills mosquitoes could be used to fight malaria Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have shown the large potential impact of a completely new type of antimalarial drug...
News article 26 Mar 2018 LSTM study identifies a novel mechanism of immune activation in filarial parasitic infection A team led by LSTM Parasitology researchers has published a new study in PLoS Pathogens detailing a pathway of cellular immune activation against...
News article 23 Mar 2018 World TB day 2018 This year’s theme for World TB Day is Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world, and is in line with LSTM’s determination to be an institution training the...
News article 22 Mar 2018 LSTM runs for second time DFID commissioned primer course in systematic reviews Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Scotland, UK: DFID health advisers from all corners of the globe came to LSTM...
News article 15 Mar 2018 Study finds the economic benefits of intensive case management in African trypanosomiasis, leprosy, visceral leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease to be potentially huge among the poor Researchers from LSTM have been involved in a study which forms the final article in a series of international studies on the economics of NTDs...
News article 14 Mar 2018 Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator officially opened LSTM’s latest estates addition, the Accelerator, has been officially opened by Professor Sir Christopher Evans OBE.
News article 9 Mar 2018 LSTM’s Dr Samantha Donnellan receives prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship Dr Samantha Donnellan, from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Winston Churchill...
News article 8 Mar 2018 Large UK study finds that serious asthma attacks are reduced by the temporary quadrupling of a steroid inhaler An LSTM-supported study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that serious asthma attacks in adults can be reduced by...
News article 8 Mar 2018 LSTM receives £1 million from HEFCE to train the next generation of UK global health leaders LSTM has received a funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) Catalyst Fund to develop its postgraduate and...
News article 3 Mar 2018 A functional and transferable colistin resistance gene found in a major pathogen of developing nations A researcher at LSTM, working with a team of Chinese investigators, has reported that the gene responsible for resistance to a last resort antibiotic...
News article 1 Mar 2018 Introducing the MRC Neonatal Nutrition Network Project An LSTM led project aiming to improve neonatal nutrition and gut health in newborns with low birth weight will have its first project meeting in...
News article 28 Feb 2018 Saving Mothers’ Lives: Ministry of Health, Kenya launches first Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths Report From: CMNH “Our country has conducted its first Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) that sought to evaluate the circumstances surrounding the...
News article 22 Feb 2018 Professor Philip Padfield becomes LSTM's first Dean of Education Professor Philip Padfield has been appointed as LSTM's Dean of Education. He will take up his post in May and comes with a wealth of experience in...
News article 16 Feb 2018 'The double-edged sword'. Dr Kevin Mortimer delivers talk at first ever MakNCD Symposium in Uganda This week, Dr Kevin Mortimer Co-Deputy Director of IMPALA visited Uganda to attend the inaugural Makerere University International Non Communicable...
News article 14 Feb 2018 Diagnostics for bacterial infection published in Scientific Reports From: CDDR A report from the RCDD diagnostic development group detailing the design of a molecular test for the species determination of Gram-negative bacteria...
News article 9 Feb 2018 Vietnam - UK seeking dose optimisation for tuberculosis The Newton Fund Vietnam has funded a collaborative research project on non-multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis with the aim of finding the optimal...
News article 5 Feb 2018 New research calls for rethink on approach to treating neglected tropical diseases in urban areas New research published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, suggests the effectiveness of large-scale distribution of medication (known as Mass Drug...
News article 2 Feb 2018 Mini-primaquine does help stop people infecting mosquitoes with malaria, but impact on transmission in the community remains unclear A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria...
News article 1 Feb 2018 IMPALA Programme: Policy Engagement and Evidence Uptake Training This week has seen the International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health and TB in Africa (IMPALA) meet at LSTM to undertake a week of...
News article 31 Jan 2018 The importance of heterogeneity on the management of vector borne diseases Researchers at LSTM have been working with colleagues in the NTD modelling consortium to look at the role that heterogeneity in mosquito...
News article 26 Jan 2018 Discussing diagnostics on BBC Radio Merseyside LSTM’s Dr Emily Adams has been this year’s first guest on BBC Radio Merseyside’s SciFri, talking to presenter Tony Snell about her diagnostics...
News article 25 Jan 2018 LSTM researchers investigate whether polio labs can help tackle neglected tropical diseases Researchers from LSTM have investigated the possibility of utilising the polio network of 145 labs set up around the world to help tackle neglected...

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