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News article 29 Feb 2016 Seminar report: Molecular diagnostics and associated multiplex PCR platforms for detection of parasitic diseases in Europe and beyond. LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Jaco Verweij from the St Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg, The Netherlands and is...
News article 25 Feb 2016 100 for Parkinson's LSTM is supporting a unique global health project which is calling for 100,000 people to track their health using their smartphone to contribute to...
News article 22 Feb 2016 MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2015-16 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept fund 2015-16 of £500,000 which can be allocated to individual...
News article 18 Feb 2016 Seminar report: Evidence-based charity: a good idea or terrible idea With the news full of catastrophes, images of communities in need and what charities can do, Caroline Fiennes seminar this week was particularly...
News article 13 Feb 2016 Top academics: Without proactive approach to insecticide resistance, gains made in malaria prevention could be lost LSTM’s Director Professor Janet Hemingway, along with 14 other eminent researchers in the field of vector biology, have put together an editorial...
News article 12 Feb 2016 Zika virus symposium: Facts, research questions and knowledge gaps A special symposium on the ongoing Zika virus outbreak in South America took place at LSTM today with over 130 in attendance comprising of LSTM staff...
plasmodium falciparum News article 12 Feb 2016 Researchers develop ART activity based probes to better understand how antimalarial drugs kill the plasmodium parasite Researchers at LSTM have developed the means of better understanding the mode of action by which the most important antimalarial drugs, artemisinin (...
News article 8 Feb 2016 CAPS trial exceeds recruitment target The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has now exceeded its recruitment target by signing up 10,726 children under the age of 5, making it the...
Tom Fletcher in clinic News article 5 Feb 2016 Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever - LSTM collaboration takes first steps towards novel treatment. LSTM’s research fellow Dr Tom Fletcher is beginning collaborative work in the development of a monoclonal therapy to treat and cure Crimean-Congo...
News article 4 Feb 2016 From genes to latrines: Vikings and their worms provide clues to emphysema In a paper published today in Nature: Scientific Reports a group of researchers led by LSTM have found that the key to an inherited deficiency,...
News article 3 Feb 2016 Seminar report: Uses and limits of research evidence in shaping global HIV policy and practice LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a presentation by Dr Nathan Ford entitled: Uses and limits of research evidence in shaping global HIV policy and...
News article 1 Feb 2016 Lung health study published in top respiratory journal A team of investigators led from LSTM has published findings from a lung health study to determine the prevalence of lung disease among adults in...
Anopheles gambiae News article 27 Jan 2016 Researchers at LSTM review the situation of insecticide resistance in the control of African Anopheles mosquitoes LSTM’s Head of Vector Biology, Professor Hilary Ranson, along with LSTM’s Ms Natalie Lissenden have published a review in the journal Trends in...
News article 25 Jan 2016 Marvellous Medicine! This weekend saw Liverpool’s World Museum hosting a special event entitled Marvellous Medicine devised by the University of Liverpool as part of...
News article 25 Jan 2016 LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund Chancellor George Osborne and Bill Gates dedicate £3 billion to the fight against malaria and infectious diseases
News article 22 Jan 2016 BMC Proceedings publishes the proceedings of The 2014 CAHRD Consultation BMC Proceedings has published the full proceedings of the 2014 CAHRD (Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery) Consultation held in...
Dr Dirk Engels (left) with LSTM Director Professor Janet Hemingway and Emeritus Professor David Molyneux (right) News article 14 Jan 2016 Dr Dirk Engels, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO, visits LSTM LSTM was host to Dr Dirk Engels, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) at the WHO. Over the two-day visit, Dr...
News article 14 Jan 2016 Researchers at LSTM develop a Simple Dipstick Assay for Operational Monitoring of DDT Researchers at LSTM have developed a simple dipstick test that can be carried out in situ to assess the quality of DDT-based indoor residual spraying...
News article 13 Jan 2016 CAHRD receives Newton Fund grant for TB diagnostics in the Philippines Researchers from the Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery (CAHRD) based at LSTM, have received a Newton Fund grant, administered through...
News article 11 Jan 2016 A Scottish Encounter With Tropical Diseases Last week saw LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard, Director of the CouNTDown consortium attend and talk at a one day symposium at the Wellcome Trust...
News article 6 Jan 2016 Guardian Development Professionals Network lists The Wellbeing Foundation, a partner of LSTM's Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, as one of their favourite NGOs of 2015 The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), an NGO that works in partnership with LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH), has been selected...
News article 17 Dec 2015 CMNH inclusion in Countdown to 2015 report: ‘A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival’ Countdown to 2015, a global movement of 43 multi-stakeholders, with The Lancet as a key partner, has tracked progress on reproductive, maternal,...
News article 16 Dec 2015 Study looks at reasons why paediatric patients drop out of HIV treatment Researchers at LSTM have carried out a study to find out what happens to children who drop out of treatment for HIV and what their outcomes are and...
News article 14 Dec 2015 LSTM awarded a place 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 10 Dec 2015 A·WOL receives $3.5 million supplementary grant The A·WOL programme is pleased to announce a $3.5 million supplementary grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for the continuation...
News article 10 Dec 2015 LSTM Researcher gets Frontier Innovator Award. LSTM’s Dr John Dusabe-Richards has been given a Frontiers Innovator Award by the Wellcome Trust.
News article 10 Dec 2015 The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) recruits its 10,000th child The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has recruited its 10,000th child under the age of 5, making it the largest trial of the effects of an advanced...
News article 8 Dec 2015 Wellcome Trust’s life science publication Mosaic features LSTM’s Far Eastern Prisoners Of War (FEPOW) project LSTM’s longest running collaborative project with the former Far Eastern Prisoners Of War (FEPOW), has been celebrated by an audio feature on the...
News article 3 Dec 2015 LSTM receives £1m donation to support Nigerian students Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has received a donation of £1m from The Bale Settlement, to provide scholarships for students from...
News article 3 Dec 2015 Seminar Series report:The role of the respiratory ecosystem in susceptibility to respiratory infection in infants. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Debby Bogaert, from the Department of Paediatric Immunology at the University...
Visceral leishmaniasis News article 3 Dec 2015 New paper looks at how diagnostics for visceral leishmaniasis can help elimination programmes. Authors of a new paper published today have used a mathematic model to show how tests able to diagnose cases of kala-azar earlier could help to...
News article 27 Nov 2015 LSTM’s 116th Annual General Meeting LSTM’s 116th Annual General Meeting (AGM) has taken place. Chaired by LSTM’s President Sir Richard Evans CBE, the LSTM’s vice-presidents, the Board...
Professor Sally Theobald: Plenary Lecture News article 26 Nov 2015 Professor Sally Theobald: Plenary Lecture This week saw a plenary lecture by LSTM’s Sally Theobald, Professor of Social Science and International Health. Awarded her chair earlier this year,...
News article 24 Nov 2015 EHPC model to test vaccine efficacy ‘a milestone’ in Investigation of Population-Wide Effects of Vaccines The editorial comment published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine hails the use of Experimental Human Pneumococcal...
Nelson Grisales News article 23 Nov 2015 Mission Malaria! This weekend saw Liverpool’s World Museum hosting a special event entitled How the Body Works devised by the University of Liverpool.  It was...
News article 19 Nov 2015 Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health receives A+ rating from DFID for its 'Making it Happen' programme in South Africa LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) is delighted to have received an A+ rating for its 'Making it Happen' programme* in South Africa...
Professor Steve Ward (left) presents the Leverhulme Medal to Professor Jimmy Volmink News article 18 Nov 2015 Professor Jimmy Volmink delivers LSTM’s 2015 Leverhulme Lecture Professor Jimmy Volmink, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, and Director of Cochrane South...
News article 12 Nov 2015 LSTM holds first Public Engagement workshop Over 20 staff and students took part in LSTM’s first Public Engagement Workshop, delivered by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement...
News article 11 Nov 2015 CMNH in Sierra Leone, rebuilding maternal and newborn health Since Sierra Leone recorded the first Ebola case on 24 May 2014, a total number of 8,704 people have been infected 3,589 of whom died. Of those who...
News article 9 Nov 2015 LSTM and Lancaster University receive MRC Doctoral Training Partnership funding Scheme allows recruitment of up to 7 PhD students per intake yearLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Lancaster University (LU) have been...

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