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News article 5 Jul 2018 IMPALA support PATS Spirometry training in Ibadan, Nigeria Certificate of Competence in Foundational Spirometry short course and Spirometry Quality Assurance workshopReport by Lindsay Zurba of Spirometry...
News article 5 Jul 2018 IMPALA investigators elected to the Union CCSA Two IMPALA linked investigators have been elected to take up positions in the Coordinating Committee of Scientific Activities (CCSA) for the Union....
News article 28 Jun 2018 LSTM commits to pay the ‘UK settlement’ fee for its EU employees Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has announced it will pay the forthcoming UK settlement fee for its EU citizen employees.
News article 22 Jun 2018 LSTM led consortium awarded £3 million to study the impact of human behaviour on AMR An LSTM led consortium called DRUM (Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi) has been awarded £3 million to investigate the way in which human...
News article 20 Jun 2018 Announcing the recipients of the LSTM Director’s Catalyst Fund The second cohort of LSTM’s Director’s Catalyst Fund have been announced, with the five recipients now in the process of working to begin their...
News article 15 Jun 2018 B!RTH Project at the Big Hope 2 The B!RTH Project - which is managed by LSTM - was delighted to perform one of its plays at a global youth congress at Hope University, Liverpool to...
From left: Professor Mortimer, Professor Harrison, Professor Ferreria News article 11 Jun 2018 LSTM announces 4 new professorships LSTM is delighted to announce the promotion of four members of its academic staff to Professors, following ratification by its Board of Trustees.
News article 8 Jun 2018 TB debated in UK Parliament ahead of UN Meeting A Backbench Business Committee debate on ending tuberculosis has taken place in House of Commons. The debate was led by Hon Nick Herbert as a...
News article 7 Jun 2018 New and updated best practice on Ebola by BMJ LSTM’s Drs Nick Beeching and Tom Fletcher have updated their open access BMJ Best Practice monograph on Ebola, bringing forward the annual update to...
News article 7 Jun 2018 LSTM relaunch of tsetse.org LSTM’s Professor Steve Torr has announced the relaunch of the website tsetse.org, designed to provide programmes and information to assist in the...
News article 5 Jun 2018 Ribavirin for treating Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever - latest Cochrane review In a viral haemorrhagic disease where up to 40% of people developing it die, it is remarkable that doctors still do not agree whether the only...
News article 5 Jun 2018 Calls for control as Asian Toads set to wreak havoc in Madagascar LSTM’s Dr Nick Casewell has been involved in study led by Bangor University which confirms the potential damage that non-native, invasive, Asian...
News article 31 May 2018 Novel use of film to disseminate Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) results to participants A film called ‘Dirty Air and Pneumonia’ which is being used to disseminate the results of long term household air pollution studies has been...
News article 31 May 2018 Dr Fiona Marston appointed as Director of the Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research (CEIDR) The Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research (CEIDR) has appointed a Director, Dr Fiona Marston, to lead the team in accelerating...
News article 29 May 2018 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) appoints Professor David Lalloo as its new Director The Board of Trustees of LSTM is delighted to announce that Professor David Lalloo has been appointed as its new Director. He will succeed Professor...
News article 25 May 2018 LSTM congratulates alumnus Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari on his appointment as WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean LSTM alumnus Dr Ahmed Salim Saif Al Mandhari was nominated this weekend at the WHO’s Special Session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern...
News article 22 May 2018 First Women in Science Symposium at LSTM LSTM’s first Women in Science Symposium, celebrating the achievements of women in science and inspiring the next generation of researchers, has taken...
News article 22 May 2018 Advanced genetics study identifies virulent strain of TB LSTM’s Dr Maxine Caws is co-lead investigator on an advanced genetics study published in Nature Genetics, which has shown that a virulent strain of...
'Heroine for Health' Professor Najla Al-Sonboli News article 21 May 2018 LSTM alumna and research partner recognised as a Heroine for Health at WHO LSTM’s alumna and research partner Professor Najla Al-Sonboli was recognised as a Heroine for Health this weekend at the World Health Assembly...
News article 16 May 2018 LSTM’s Dr Kevin Mortimer speaks at Liverpool’s Pint of Science For the second year running Liverpool hosted Pint of Science, an annual three-day festival that brings engaging science and latest research findings...
News article 16 May 2018 LSTM receives Wellcome Innovator Award to test novel medications for immune-mediated neuropathies LSTM’s Professor Richard Pleass has been awarded a Wellcome Innovator Award to improve the treatment for people suffering from a range of immune-...
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...

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