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News article 11 Jul 2017 LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine speaks at Bluedot Festival Last weekend LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine gave at a talk at the Bluedot festival, an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep space...
Mother carrying her baby on her back News article 10 Jul 2017 Fellowship in Maternal and Newborn Health From: CMNH The Fellowship will allow a practicing UK clinician to spend up to 12 months working alongside the award-winning CMNH team at LSTM on a research...
News article 10 Jul 2017 IMPALA Launch Meeting The International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health and TB in Africa, “IMPALA” is a four-year...
News article 6 Jul 2017 LSTM Seminar Report: Control and study of the Zika epidemic in Pernambuco Today a seminar entitled ‘Control and study of the Zika epidemic in Pernambuco’ was delivered by Dr Jailson Correia Health Secretary for Recife...
News article 6 Jul 2017 Research team at LSTM develop new ways to create and deliver medications for a wide range of immune-mediated neuropathies. Researchers at LSTM are looking at new ways to create and deliver medications for a wide range of immune-mediated neuropathies, by developing new...
News article 5 Jul 2017 LSTM at the Big Bang North West festival LSTM’s Respiratory Research team led by Dr Simon Jochems, the A·WOL Consortium’s Dr Louise Ford and Dr Kelly Johnston with support from RCDD’s Dr...
News article 27 Jun 2017 MRC Confidence in Concept 2017: Awards announced The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium has announced the successful projects that will be receiving an MRC Confidence in Concept Award to...
News article 26 Jun 2017 Dr Mary McCauley wins Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Educational Excellence Award Dr Mary McCauley from LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) has won an award from the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training...
News article 22 Jun 2017 LSTM wins at the Regional Business Awards LSTM has been named Knowledge Business of the Year at the Liverpool Echo Regional Business Awards 2017.
News article 20 Jun 2017 Recipients of LSTM’s new Director’s Catalyst Fund announced The first five recipients of a new fund to support early stage projects have been announced, and are in the process to begin their research.
Dr S. Patrick Kachur (centre), Prof Hemingway (right) Mr James Ross (left) News article 20 Jun 2017 Dr S. Patrick Kachur CDC delivers LSTM’s 2017 Leverhulme Lecture Dr S. Patrick Kachur, Chief of the Malaria Branch at the US Centres for Disease control and Prevention (CDC), delivered the prestigious LSTM...
News article 19 Jun 2017 LSTM’s A·WOL Consortium at Africa Oyé This weekend saw Africa Oyé, the UK’s largest annual free celebration of African music and culture, take place in Sefton Park in Liverpool. Thousands...
News article 13 Jun 2017 Legacies of Far East Captivity: 6th International FEPOW Conference Following the recent launch of the new book Burma Railway Medicine, which comes as part of LSTM’s longest running collaboration, the co-...
News article 13 Jun 2017 Snakebite envenoming added to the WHO NTD portfolio LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit welcomes a decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to include snakebite envenoming among...
ICM Triennial Congress 2017 News article 13 Jun 2017 MIDWIVES: Make it Happen! From: CMNH CMNH will showcase its work at the 31st International Confederation of Midwives Triennial Congress in Toronto, Canada on Monday 19th June 2017.
News article 1 Jun 2017 LSTM Seminar report: "Antimicrobial Resistance; it’s in you!" LSTM’s seminar series 2016/2017 concluded this week with a talk from LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and...
News article 31 May 2017 LSTM launches new Transposon Registry LSTM has launched a new Transposon Registry which will serve as a repository of information on all bacterial transposons for the scientific community.
News article 25 May 2017 LSTM Seminar Report: Understanding and strengthening progress towards the elimination of HIV transmission through sex work in Zimbabwe LSTM’s Frances Cowan, Professor of Global Health, continued LSTM’s seminar series with her talk entitled: Understanding and strengthening progress...
News article 24 May 2017 LSTM and partners develop molecule that could lead to first synthetic one-dose malaria treatment Researchers at LSTM, working in partnership with the University of Liverpool and other colleagues, have developed a molecule which has the potential...
News article 24 May 2017 Burma Railway Medicine book launch at Liverpool Medical Institute Last night saw the launch of LSTM’s latest book about its longest running collaboration with ex-Far East prisoners of war (FEPOW) Burma Railway...
News article 23 May 2017 LSTM consortia colleagues recognised as ‘Heroines of Health’ in awards ceremony LSTM consortia colleagues were recognised in the first ever ‘Heroines of Health’ honouree roll at the World Health Assembly Geneva this month.
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...

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