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News article 18 Nov 2016 LSTM and Lancaster University launch MRC Doctoral Training Programme 2017 - 2018 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Lancaster University are pleased to announce up to seven fully-funded PhD studentships to commence...
News article 17 Nov 2016 World Prematurity Day From: CMNH World Prematurity Day, on 17 November, is a global movement to raise awareness of premature birth and the sometimes devastating impact it can have on...
Rie Takahashi discussing her poster with delegates News article 17 Nov 2016 Masters student presents Ebola study to Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine From: CMNH Rie, who graduated this year from the MSc in Humanitarian Studies at LSTM, recently presented findings from her dissertation at the 57th Annual...
News article 17 Nov 2016 LSTM's Edward Thomsen awarded prestigious Grand Challenges Exploration grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. LSTM’s Edward Thomsen in the Department of Vector Biology has been awarded a prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration (GCE) grant, an initiative...
News article 17 Nov 2016 As dengue spikes and Zika spreads, new educational toolkits are rolled out to help communities prevent diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes 17 November 2016, Geneva / Liverpool / The Hague–Amid spikes in dengue cases and the recent spread of the Zika virus, Red Cross and Red Crescent...
News article 17 Nov 2016 Seminar Series report: Priorities in Global Neonatal Health LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Tom Lissauer, an Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at Imperial College Healthcare...
News article 15 Nov 2016 New drug candidate for the curative treatment of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis The LSTM based A-WOL consortium discovered the molecule TylAMac™ , which has been selected as a candidate for development as the first drug designed...
News article 14 Nov 2016 Medical Miracles in the Jungle: surviving WWII Far East Captivity Last week saw LSTM’s honorary research fellow Meg Parkes and Emeritus Professor Geoff Gill give a talk at the University of Liverpool’s Victoria...
News article 14 Nov 2016 Artist Teachers Association and LJMU students visit LSTM as part of the SciArt Intervention Project in collaboration with Liverpool Tate The past couple of weeks has seen LSTM’s Digital Resources and Collections Manager Sarah Lewis-Newton, Honorary Fellow Meg Parkes and Vector Biology’...
News article 14 Nov 2016 LSTM’s respiratory group looks at the effect of the new nasal spray flu vaccination on the carriage of pneumococcal bacteria in the nose. LSTM’s respiratory group has begun the latest study looking at the effect of the new nasal spray flu vaccination on the carriage of pneumococcal...
News article 11 Nov 2016 COUNTDOWN at COR-NTD The COUNTDOWN Consortium, hosted at LSTM, is holding two sessions at the COR-NTD (Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases)...
News article 10 Nov 2016 Seminar report: Lymphatic Filariasis in Myanmar - Morbidity, MDA & early detection of lymphatic disease. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a seminar by Jan Douglass, lymphatic therapist, instructor and doctoral candidate at James Cook...
News article 9 Nov 2016 LSTM Seminar: Microbial symbionts for control of mosquito-borne disease. There was a special seminar at LSTM this week with a presentation by Grant Hughes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the...
News article 9 Nov 2016 New website for the FOCAL-NTDs project LSTM’s research fellow Dr Michelle Stanton has launched a new website as part of the FOCAL-NTDs project, which looks into providing and disseminating...
News article 8 Nov 2016 School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents. Do school-based interventions prevent HIV, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy? This is the question asked by researchers from the University...
News article 4 Nov 2016 LSTM WASH Integrated Approach Receives ISNTD Award  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) won an award on Tuesday, 1st Nov. 2016 for using innovative approaches to control Neglected...
News article 3 Nov 2016 Wellcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow for Global Health Research (WTCGHR) Annual Scientific Meeting This year’s Annual Scientific Meeting of the Wellcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow for Global Health Research (WTCGHR) has just concluded in Chester, with...
News article 3 Nov 2016 Seminar report: Neglected tropical diseases and LSTM LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a seminar by Professor David Molyneux, Emeritus Professor and Senior Professorial Fellow at the...
News article 2 Nov 2016 Professor Janet Hemingway receives Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Chester LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway CBE, has been honoured by the University of Chester today as she is conferred as Honorary Doctor of...
News article 1 Nov 2016 New paper looks at how infection with the filarial parasite influences mosquito behaviour. Researchers at LSTM have gone a step further in understanding the role that parasitic infection plays in the host seeking behaviour of mosquitoes...
News article 1 Nov 2016 CMNH conduct workshop in Oman for the implementation of a national review of maternal near miss. Dr Jamila Al Abri and Dr Mary McCauley from the LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and NewbornHealth (CMNH) have recently returned from Muscat, Oman where...
Spira Loreen and Beatrice Undisa standing outside the delivery room at Webuye hospital News article 31 Oct 2016 Training changes staff attitudes to Assisted Vaginal Delivery in Kenya From: CMNH Webuye Sub County hospital in Bungoma County is one of the facilities that benefited from Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal care (EmONC) training from...
News article 31 Oct 2016 LSTM Seminar Report: AIDS: don’t die of prejudice “One of the first to understand the nature of the threat from HIV/AIDS, he has never stopped campaigning”, was how The Guardian described the Right...
News article 27 Oct 2016 LSTM Seminar Series Report: ‘Tuberculosis in 2016 – Burden, challenges, innovations’ LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a seminar by Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the Global TB Programme for the World Health...
News article 26 Oct 2016 Clean cookstoves lead to 40% reduction in burns in children Initial results from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)-led Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) in Malawi indicate that cooking with...
News article 25 Oct 2016 LSTM’s Mosquito Diaries at the Manchester Science Festival 2016 The Mosquito Diaries team have been exhibiting, this week, at the Museum of Science in Industry as part of the Manchester Science Festival 2016....
News article 25 Oct 2016 Artist Teachers Association SciArt Intervention project in collaboration with LSTM, LJMU and Liverpool Tate The weekend saw LSTM’s Digital Resources and Collections Manager Sarah Lewis-Newton, Honorary Fellow Meg Parkes and Public Engagement Manager Dr Elli...
News article 20 Oct 2016 Seminar Series report: Tackling rheumatic heart disease - from antibiotics to ultrasound to ivermectin to vaccines LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a presentation by Associate Professor Andrew Steer, consultant paediatrician and infectious diseases physician...
News article 19 Oct 2016 Liverpool unveils world-class Knowledge Quarter vision Liverpool’s leading politicians, universities and hospitals came together today to launch their multibillion pound vision for the redevelopment of a...
News article 19 Oct 2016 B!RTH The team at LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) have acted as scientific advisors for a series of seven provocative plays and four...
The Ugandan minister for Primary Health Care, the minister for Animal Husbandry and the minister for Northern Uganda, visiting the LSTM exhibition during the Tsetse Awareness day. News article 19 Oct 2016 LSTM recognised for control of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Uganda The north-western parts of Uganda has seen a dramatic decrease in cases of HAT, or sleeping sickness; from a reported 100 cases in 2010, to only four...
News article 18 Oct 2016 CMNH at B!RTH event From: CMNH Nynke van den Broek and CMNH has been invited to be involved with an upcoming arts festival, B!RTH in Manchester from 19th-22nd ...
News article 13 Oct 2016 Liberia to launch COUNTDOWN programme to support interventions against Neglected Tropical Diseases The COUNTDOWN programme for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) is to be launched in Liberia on Wednesday, 19th October 2016. Liberia is recovering...
News article 13 Oct 2016 Seminar Series report: Why research integrity (RI) isn’t just ‘somebody else’s problem’ LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a presentation to LSTM staff and students by Dr Liz Wager, Publications Consultant and Visiting Professor from...
News article 7 Oct 2016 Seminar Series Report: Cryptococcal meningitis – treatment, prevention and advocacy LSTM’s seminar series continued with a talk from Dr Angela Loyse and Professor Tom Harrison from St George’s University of London. Their presentation...
News article 7 Oct 2016 The Bangladesh Filariasis Elimination Programme visits LSTM This week LSTM’s Filarial Programmes Support Unit (FPSU) played host to members of the programme team in Bangladesh who visited to review progress,...
News article 6 Oct 2016 LSTM launches two new online courses LSTM has launched two new online courses as part of the wider expansion of its already expansive teaching portfolio.
News article 29 Sep 2016 Launch of the USAID SQALE initiative LSTM’s Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer has been talking at a symposium about community health in Kenya, which is the launch event for a new initiative to embed...
News article 29 Sep 2016 Seminar Series report: How Science Becomes A Story LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation from Victoria Gill, a specialist science journalist for the BBC. Her talk, entitled:...
News article 23 Sep 2016 Liverpool College visits LSTM Students from Liverpool College visited LSTM today to learn about life as a researcher in tropical medicine. The students wrote a blog about the...

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