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News article 19 May 2017 Liverpool’s first Pint of Science festival This week has seen LSTM’s staff take part in a festival taking science out of the lab and into the pub! Pint of Science is a non-profit global...
Dr Daniela Ferreira News article 18 May 2017 Seminar series report: Pneumonia prevention strategies: Cookstoves are dead - long live the vaccine! LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Drs Kevin Mortimer and Daniela Ferreira. Entitled: Pneumonia preventions strategies:...
News article 17 May 2017 LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory (CDPL) becomes fully accredited by UKAS. LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory (CDPL) has become fully accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), following...
News article 11 May 2017 LSTM Seminar Report: Burma Railway Medicine – tropical diseases in Far East captivity (1942-1945) LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Emeritus Professor Geoff Gill and Honorary Research Fellow Meg Parkes based on their new...
News article 8 May 2017 LSTM faculties receive Athena SWAN Bronze Awards Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has achieved two faculty Bronze Awards for Athena SWAN of the Equality Challenge Unit. It is a...
News article 5 May 2017 Postgraduate Open Day May 2017 This week LSTM welcomed prospective students as it opened its doors for the first postgraduate open day of 2017.
News article 5 May 2017 First molecular diagnostics for insecticide resistance in sandflies A study led by LSTM identifies a potent molecular mechanism for insecticide resistance in the world’s most medically-important sandfly species and...
News article 4 May 2017 LSTM Seminar Series: 'Midwives, Mothers and Families: Partners for Life' To celebrate International Day of the Midwife on 5th May 2017, LSTM’s Seminar Series this week was delivered by Midwife Joy Kemp, Global...
News article 3 May 2017 Research team finds no adverse risk to use of common antimalarials in first trimester of pregnancy Malaria is more common and severe in pregnant women, increasing their risk of miscarriage and other adverse outcomes. The adverse consequences of...
News article 28 Apr 2017 Expanding the vector control toolbox to enable malaria elimination - Why what and how A trio of new analysis articles, led by LSTM’s Dr Gerry Killeen, have been published in British Medical Journal Global Health. The articles...
News article 27 Apr 2017 Seminar Series report: From Public Engagement to Impact LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Sheena Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Immunology at the University of Manchester and...
News article 25 Apr 2017 LSTM hosts successful meeting to plan for ReBUILD extension phase Last week saw ReBUILD Consortium partners from around the world come together for a workshop at LSTM. This workshop was to plan a £2 million...
News article 25 Apr 2017 Insecticide-induced leg loss does not eliminate biting and reproduction in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes Researchers at LSTM have found that mosquitoes that lose multiple legs after contact with insecticide may still be able to spread malaria and lay...
News article 25 Apr 2017 LSTM and University of Manchester’s HCRI start global partnership with MSF Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) of the University of Manchester have...
News article 21 Apr 2017 World Malaria Day 2017 Tuesday 25th April is World Malaria Day and to consolidate the efforts of the last 12 months the theme remains 'End Malaria for Good', with the...
News article 18 Apr 2017 Our recent activities by LSTM people in the field of NTDs   
Professor Molyneux (left) and Professor Fenwick News article 16 Apr 2017 Joint statement from Professors Molyneux and Fenwick to the increased DFID funding to fight Neglected Tropical Diseases "We are delighted to welcome the announcement by the Secretary of State for International Development, the Rt. Hon Priti Patel of further support for...
News article 6 Apr 2017 Seminar Series report: How important is tropical medicine and international health? Research findings on disease control, wellbeing, poverty LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from LSTM’s Professor Louis Niessen. His presentation, entitled: How important is tropical...
News article 4 Apr 2017 LSTM Seminar report: Tackling health-related global challenges: IDS strategy, approaches and directions There was a special seminar at LSTM this week as LSTM’s Professor Sally Theobald introduced colleagues from The Institute of Development Studies (IDS...
News article 3 Apr 2017 Natalie Lissenden’s first Microbes to Mosquitoes workshop at Centre 63 Last week, LSTM’s Natalie Lissenden, Karina Mondragon Shem, Amy Guy, Jay Hutchison and the University of Liverpool’s Phil Dyer hosted an entomology...
News article 3 Apr 2017 LSTM launches new Horizon 2020 programme – PERFORM 2scale LSTM hosted the start-up workshop of an exciting new 5-year programme – PERFORM2scale.
Credit: Alex Ribeiro News article 31 Mar 2017 LSTM led study examines the venom system of a tiny fish with big teeth A study led by LSTM describes the advanced venom system of a seemingly unassuming little fish, and its major impact on fishes and other animals in...
News article 29 Mar 2017 Statement from LSTM following the UK's formal announcement to leave the EU Following the referendum of 2016, the UK government has this week formalised the outcome by officially announcing  its decision to leave the...
News article 29 Mar 2017 RCDD reports on a new way of screening potential treatments for tuberculosis In a paper published in Scientific Reports scientists from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD) have described a new way...
Credit: WHO News article 27 Mar 2017 STAR host two day HIV Self-Testing Workshop, Nairobi LSTM’s Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer is in Nairobi this week for a two-day HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) workshop hosted by the UNITAID PSI HIV Self-...
News article 24 Mar 2017 Three Fleming Fund scoping studies on AMR completed LSTM has recently completed three Fleming Fund scoping studies utilising their established networks and expertise across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia...
Mamas United team photo News article 23 Mar 2017 Playing Soccer for maternal health From: CMNH On 5th March 2017, LSTM joined the Maternity Foundation in playing soccer at the Global Goals World Cup tournament in Nairobi, Kenya as part of the...
News article 23 Mar 2017 Seminar Series Report: Stop - End - Eliminate TB: What exactly, and how? LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation from Professor Knut Lönnroth from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global TB...
News article 21 Mar 2017 Dr Charles Ameh becomes RCOG Fellow Dr Charles Ameh, Deputy Head of LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH), has become a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and...
News article 17 Mar 2017 LSTM Seminar Report: The past, present and threatened future of residual malaria transmission Dr Gerry Killeen, reader at LSTM, based at Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania delivered a special seminar at LSTM entitled: The past, present and...
News article 17 Mar 2017 DFID commissioned 3-day primer course at LSTM in systematic reviews in health development “Globalise the evidence, localise the decision” was John Eisenberg’s meme of 2002. It set the stage for evidence synthesis to summarise global...
Cross section filarial nematode wolbachia in green News article 17 Mar 2017 New anti-Wolbachia drug regimen could reduce treatment times of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis to 1-2 weeks Scientists from the A·WOL Consortium, based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, have published a paper in Nature's Scientific Reports...
News article 16 Mar 2017 LSTM Seminar Series Report: Evidence for population health improvement: can genomics help? LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk by George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol. His...
News article 16 Mar 2017 Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) visits LSTM Sarah Dickinson Hyams, Head of Equality Charters at the ECU, visited LSTM on Wednesday the 15th of March to talk about the Athena SWAN Charter.Mrs...
News article 16 Mar 2017 Mosquito Madness at Ness Botanic Gardens for British Science Week 2017 LSTM’s Vector Biology’s Aislinn Currie-Jordan and Natalie Lissenden took part in British Science Week 2017 at Ness Botanic Gardens in Wirral, UK....
News article 10 Mar 2017 COUNTDOWN Programme Launches in Nigeria Nigeria to scale-up its intervention against Neglected Tropical Diseases in Kaduna and Ogun.
News article 10 Mar 2017 MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2016-2017 Now open for applications The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept Award 2016-17 of £549,000 which can be allocated to individual...
News article 7 Mar 2017 Natalie Lissenden awarded funding from the Awesome Foundation for Microbes to Mosquitoes Last night, LSTM’s Miss Natalie Lissenden was awarded £250 from the Awesome Foundation Liverpool for her project entitled “Microbes to Mosquitoes”...
News article 2 Mar 2017 Seminar Series Report: Data to improve vector control programmes The seminar series continued today with a presentation from LSTM’s Senior Lecturer Dr Mike Coleman. His talk entitled: Data to improve vector control...
News article 22 Feb 2017 LSTM’s Venom Research Unit in consultation with Kofi Annan Foundation on snakebite in Africa Dr Robert Harrison, Head of LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, has been in consultation with the Kofi Annan Foundation in relation to the...

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