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News article 1 Jun 2016 LSTM out in force in Geneva during the 69th World Health Assembly, 23-29th May. The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194 member states. It is the world'...
News article 27 May 2016 LSTM project Tiny Targets highlighted as a success in an open letter from the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation One of LSTM’s projects to control tsetse flies, which spread the potentially fatal Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, has...
News article 27 May 2016 CMNH concludes another successful international conference Yesterday LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health’s (CMNH) finished a successful three day International Conference, and the launch of their...
News article 27 May 2016 Commonwealth Scholarship Commission lecture series at LSTM. This week LSTM has played host to about 70 overseas students as part of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission’s (CSC) lecture series.
News article 25 May 2016 Seminar report: Seven years of steady progress at Aberystwyth Anthelmintic Drug Discovery Group Professor Karl Hoffmann of Aberystwyth University was introduced by LSTM’s Head of Parasitology Professor Mark Taylor to an audience of over 30...
News article 24 May 2016 Results of Making it Happen Programme announced as international conference opens. LSTM’s Centre for Maternal & Newborn Health (CMNH) have announced the results of their Making it Happen programme, at the start of a three day...
A chest X-ray from a patient with tuberculosis (TB) in Lira, Uganda. Credit: J. Matthews/Panos News article 20 May 2016 Fixed-dose combinations of drugs versus single-drug formulations for treating pulmonary tuberculosis A research team from Spain has prepared a Cochrane systematic review that explores the efficacy, safety, and adherence to fixed-dose combinations (...
News article 19 May 2016 Seminar report: Automated phenotyping of invertebrate pathogens and vectors facilitates high-throughput screening for novel anthelmintics and insecticides Professor David B Sattelle from the University College London was introduced by LSTM’s Dr Gareth Lycett to over 30 members of LSTM staff...
News article 18 May 2016 LSTM to co-ordinate £2.5 million insecticide resistance collaboration Researchers from LSTM and a number of prominent institutions in the UK and Africa have received £2.5 million in the form of a Wellcome Trust...
News article 17 May 2016 Seminar report: Methodological issues raised by economic evaluations of perinatal and paediatric interventions. LSTM’s Seminar series continued this week with a talk from Stavros Petrou, Professor of Health Economics at Warwick University. His presentation...
News article 17 May 2016 Mosquito Diaries at LightNight LSTM’s vector group joined the citywide celebrations for this year’s LightNight as part of an event at the Everyman Theatre on Friday night....
Credit: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) News article 11 May 2016 New Cochrane Review: Lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay for detecting active tuberculosis in HIV-positive adults. An international review team has prepared a Cochrane systematic review to assess the accuracy of a point-of-care urine test for diagnosing and...
News article 6 May 2016 LSTM Postgraduate Open Day Potential students were welcomed by Michael Lurie, LSTM’s Director of International Education and Knowledge Exchange who introduced them to LSTM...
News article 5 May 2016 LSTM led team wins bid to organise the 2018 Health Systems Global Symposium Biennial global conference will bring over 2,000 delegates to ACC Liverpool
News article 5 May 2016 CMNH in Oman Members of LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) are currently in Muscat, Oman taking part in a specially organised workshop examining...
News article 28 Apr 2016 Updated Cochrane Review: Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) have carried out a review update to evaluate the effects of corticosteroids being used alongside anti-...
News article 27 Apr 2016 LSTM awarded £800,000 to help build research capacity in Africa LSTM’s Professor Imelda Bates of the Capacity Research Unit has been awarded £800 000 to promote excellence in health research...
News article 27 Apr 2016 LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016 A team from LSTM will be exhibiting, for the very first time, at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London in July 2016. 
News article 25 Apr 2016 COUNTDOWN in Ghana: 1st Annual Review Meeting Last week saw all partners from the COUNTDOWN Consortium assembled in Ghana to develop and solidify their implementation research plans on neglected...
News article 25 Apr 2016 FPSU trains local health staff in care of lymphoedema patients in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique This past week (April 21-23) the LSTM’s Filariasis Programmes Support Unit (FPSU) carried out, together with the Mozambique Ministry of Health,...
News article 22 Apr 2016 World Malaria Day 2016 Monday 25th April is World Malaria Day and it provides us with an opportunity to look at some of the cutting edge work that is being carried out...
News article 21 Apr 2016 LSTM Seminar: New insights on Plasmodium vivax biology LSTM’s seminar series continued last week with a presentation by Professor Laurent Rénia, Executive Director of the Singapore Immunology Network and...
News article 21 Apr 2016 Zika virus: Separating Fact from Fiction at Kirkby SciBar This week LSTM’s Dr Lee Haines, a postdoctoral researcher in Vector Biology, spoke at Kirkby SciBar at Holy Angels Social Club in Kirkby...
News article 20 Apr 2016 LSTM hosts international meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases LSTM’s Filarial Programmes Support Unit (FPSU) hosted a three day meeting earlier this week for the Working Group on Crosscutting Issues for the...
News article 20 Apr 2016 Quality improvement (QI) for Maternal and Child Health in Kenya: CMNH delivers training workshops LSTM's CMNH staff have been in Nairobi to deliver training on innovative methods and approaches for improving quality of care for mothers...
News article 19 Apr 2016 Professor Mark Taylor appointed President of the British Society for Parasitology LSTM’s Professor Mark Taylor has been appointed as the President of the British Society for Parasitology (BSP).
News article 13 Apr 2016 CMNH workshop on Quality of Care for mothers and babies in Malawi LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH(link is external)), together with UNICEF and WHO, has organized a two day workshop on quality of...
News article 12 Apr 2016 Second HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) Project meeting LSTM’s Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer is in South Africa this week for the second partner meeting of the UNITAID(link is external) /...
News article 8 Apr 2016 LSTM launches first emergency snakebite response initiative Drs Rob Harrison and Nick Casewell from LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit have recently returned from Kenya after helping...
News article 8 Apr 2016 LSTM hosts the NGO forum This week saw the first of this year’s Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Forums at LSTM. Held biannually to correspond with LSTM’s 112-year-old...
News article 4 Apr 2016 LSTM PGR Student Conference 2016 LSTM’s 2015 PGR Student Conference took place last week at the Liner Hotel in Liverpool. Chaired by Professor Martin Donnelly the full day...
News article 1 Apr 2016 Mr Rick Young retires after 31 years of service LSTM bid a fond farewell to Mr Rick Young, Laboratory Supervisor, who retired after more than 31 years of service.
News article 29 Mar 2016 Researchers from LSTM awarded over £590,000 to develop app to promote HIV status awareness in the Philippines Researchers from LSTM, working partnership with the University of the Philippines, has been awarded over £590,000 to carry out a study piloting a...
News article 22 Mar 2016 Major funding for Zika health protection research LSTM has been awarded over £400,000 from the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Newton Fund and the Wellcome Trust to carry out research into...
News article 18 Mar 2016 Is Dengue Vector Control Deficient in Effectiveness or Evidence?: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Researchers at LSTM have called for higher quality standardised research in order to assess the impact of vector control to prevent virus infections...
Photo: McKay Savage CC News article 18 Mar 2016 Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium completes sudy on acceptability of alternative drugs and strategies to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Kenya Researchers at LSTM, working with colleagues at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) USA, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and...
Professor Stephen Allen News article 16 Mar 2016 Pilot study launched in Malawi to address severe acute malnutrition. LSTM’s Professor Stephen Allen has begun a pilot study in Malawi to measure the impact of specialist foods on the treatment of severe acute...
News article 16 Mar 2016 Knowledge Quarter Executive Director appointed The Liverpool Knowledge Quarter has appointed the Director of one of the UK’s largest regional property developers, Colin Sinclair, as its Executive...
News article 4 Mar 2016 Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and WWARN join forces The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium, based at LSTM, has joined forces with the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) to establish a...
News article 29 Feb 2016 LSTM’s Professor Mark Taylor speaks at the 6th International Symposium on Current Trends in Drug Discovery and Research (CTDDR-2016) in India. LSTM’s Professor Mark Taylor presented a plenary lecture at the 6th International Symposium on Current Trends in Drug Discovery and Research (CTDDR-...

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