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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...
News article 21 Feb 2017 LSTM partners with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in its Diploma in UK Medical Practice Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is delighted to announce that it has partnered with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)...
News article 20 Feb 2017 The UK Coalition Against NTDs join forces to advance the agenda 5 Years On The World Health Organisation’s roadmap on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and the London Declaration on NTDs are marking their 5th anniversary...
News article 16 Feb 2017 LSTM Seminar report: Medical journals and the medicalisation of Global Health Dr Jocalyn Clark, Executive Editor of The Lancet continued LSTM’s seminar series with her talk entitled: Medical journals and the medicalisation of...
News article 13 Feb 2017 Asthma UK launch new report about connected devices LSTM’s Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dr John Blakey, is the lead author on a new report looking at utilising new technology for the management of the...
News article 10 Feb 2017 LSTM’s Dr Ben Morton wins North West Coast Research and innovations Awards Research Student of the Year. Dr Ben Morton has won the Research Student of the Year award at the 2017 North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards. 
News article 9 Feb 2017 Seminar Series report: 'Understanding filarial disease, a story of success' LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk by Charles Mackenzie, Professor of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation at Michigan...
This image was captured by an infra-red tracking system and shows the flight paths of multiple mosquitoes as they attempt to reach a sleeping human protected inside an insecticide-treated be net. The image shows the high concentration of activity on the roof of the net, above the torso of the sleeper beneath. News article 9 Feb 2017 Mosquito research receives $2 million grant to speed up the development of new vector control products LSTM’s Department of Vector Biology has received a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a research programme to develop novel...
News article 8 Feb 2017 IVCC secure licence with Indian manufacturer for production of IQKs developed at LSTM IVCC has signed a licence agreement with Tagros Chemicals India to manufacture and commercialise Insecticide Quantification Kits (IQKs) in India, and...
News article 6 Feb 2017 Research finds flaws in studies of mass deworming efforts for children in poor countries The International Journal of Epidemiology finds that three widely cited research studies relating to mass deworming in Africa have substantial...
News article 3 Feb 2017 Scaled-up malaria control efforts breed insecticide resistance in mosquitoes Resistance has swept through mosquito populations in southern Africa, threatening malaria prevention
News article 2 Feb 2017 LSTM Seminar Series: 'What have the genomes ever done for us? How population genomics is revolutionizing our understanding of resistance.' LSTM’s Seminar Series restarted for the second semester with a talk from LSTM’s Martin Donnelly, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics. His seminar...
News article 1 Feb 2017 LSTM’s ambassador for NTDs awarded Commander of the National Order of Valour in Cameroon. One of LSTM’s ambassadors for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has been presented with one of Cameroon’s highest honours at a ceremony earlier this...
Kenyan baby smiling News article 1 Feb 2017 CMNH score A and A+ in Making it Happen Kenya annual review From: CMNH We are delighted to receive A and A+ ratings for the Maternal Newborn Health programme in Kenya, from the project’s funder, the Department for...
News article 27 Jan 2017 Fifth anniversary of the London Declaration on NTDs: Progress made and challenges remaining As we move towards the five-year anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), LSTM’s Senior Professorial Fellow David...
News article 26 Jan 2017 LSTM Seminar Report: Systems biology of Zika Infection There was a special seminar at LSTM this week, when Dr Helder Nakaya, Assistant Professor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Adjunct...
Collecting data at Onyaanya Health Centre News article 24 Jan 2017 Making a difference in Namibia From: CMNH We've recently completed a national assessment of healthcare facilities in Namibia, focusing on emergency obstetric and newborn care, in close...
creative commons credit USAID News article 23 Jan 2017 Study finds the economic benefits of preventive chemotherapy in NTDs to be potentially huge among the poor An international study published in PLOS NTDs reports that the economic benefits in productivity gain from preventive chemotherapy in NTD control and...
News article 18 Jan 2017 Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research launched LSTM and the University of Liverpool have launched a new joint centre which aims to address the urgent need to develop new antimicrobials and...
News article 13 Jan 2017 Seminar report: Quality Improvement in the NHS and Internationally This week saw a special seminar at LSTM when Dr Peter Lachman, CEO of The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), delivered a...

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