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News article 5 Nov 2015 LSTM receives GHIT fund award to continue the development of a new antimalarial compound The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) together with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry (University of Liverpool (UoL)) and the...
A computer generated image of the Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator News article 5 Nov 2015 New Liverpool life science centre to lead global fight in antibiotic resistance Liverpool’s future as a world class life science hub has taken a huge step forward with the announcement of a new £25m laboratory development that...
News article 4 Nov 2015 COUNTDOWN Consortium supports parliamentary enquiry into Ebola In September and December 2014 the UK International Development Select Committee held enquiries into the Ebola response. They are currently looking...
Doctor with nasal spray vaccine News article 2 Nov 2015 LSTM trial: Will new flu nasal spray increase chances of nasal colonisation with pneumococcus? LSTM has started a clinical trial that will investigate if the new flu nasal spray, which is now given to children in UK, increases the chances of...
Anopheles funestus © James Gathany, CDC; Dr Frank Collins, University of Notre Dame News article 30 Oct 2015 LSTM researchers decipher molecular basis of resistance in the African vector Anopheles funestus Researchers at LSTM have shown the means by which one of the major species of mosquito responsible for transmitting malaria in Africa is becoming...
News article 30 Oct 2015 LSTM at the 2015 COR-NTD and ASTMH conferences This week many LSTM staff and groups travelled to Philadelphia, USA to attend two important annual events within the 2015 calendar of Tropical...
News article 29 Oct 2015 Launch of the COUNTDOWN Programme in Ghana The Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Programme under the Public Health Division of the Ghana Health Service officially launched the COUNTDOWN...
Ashwaq Alnazawi receives hger award from His Highness Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf News article 29 Oct 2015 Award for LSTM PhD student Ashwaq Alnazawi PhD Student Ashwaq Alnazawi, studying at LSTM, was honoured last month at during a ceremony at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London.
News article 23 Oct 2015 Professor Louis Niessen to talk at ASTMH LSTM’s Chair in Health Economics, Professor Niessen will be speaking at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s (ASTMH) 64th annual...
Image Courtesy: European Commission DG ECHO News article 23 Oct 2015 The impact of Ebola on TB in West Africa LSTM’s Drs Derek Sloan and Tim O’Dempsey have examined the impact that the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease in relation to the incidence of...
News article 23 Oct 2015 Building Back Better: ReBUILD Consortium launches new resource on gender and post-conflict health systems. The outputs from ReBUILD's collaborative work on gender in post-conflict health systems has now been developed into 'Building Back Better...
News article 22 Oct 2015 REACHOUT holds 5th Consortium meeting in Indonesia The 5th REACHOUT consortium meeting was held from 7th-16th October and was hosted by the Eijkman Institute in Cianjur, Indonesia. REACHOUT colleagues...
Professor Herbert Gilles at the Wellcome Witness Seminar on ‘British Contributions to Medical Research and Education In Africa after the Second World War’ courtesy of History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. Photo credit: Wellcome Library, London News article 21 Oct 2015 In Memoriam: Emeritus Dean and Professor in Tropical Medicine Herbert Michael Gilles (1921 – 2015) It is with great sadness that LSTM wishes to announce the passing of its Vice-President, former Dean and Professor in Tropical Medicine Herbert...
© Flickr Creative Commons Photo ID: Hoel_110725_ News article 21 Oct 2015 LSTM’s health economists call for strategies for universal access to medicines LSTM’s health economists Professor Louis Niessen and Dr Jahangir Khan outline the importance for universal access to medicines in the control of...
© Flickr Creative Commons Ton Rulkens News article 21 Oct 2015 Updated Cochrane Review: Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea Researchers from Emory University, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the World Health Organization have carried out an updated...
A woman with her 'red health card', which allows her to access government health services in the Korail slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Lucy Milmo/DFID News article 20 Oct 2015 Bangladesh Health Successes shift Chronic Diseases to Poor A study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology shows that over the past decades Bangladesh observed a successful health transition...
Amuda Baba Dieu-Merci, Executive Director of Institut Panafricain de Santé Communautaire et Medecine Tropicale (IPASC) News article 19 Oct 2015 Human resources for Maternal Health in rural DR Congo: Addressing the challenges Amuda Baba Dieu-Merci, Executive Director of Institut Panafricain de Santé Communautaire et Medecine Tropicale (IPASC), visited LSTM to talk to staff...
News article 16 Oct 2015 Brian Faragher: Plenary Lecture This week saw a plenary lecture by LSTM’s Brian Faragher, Professor of Medical Statistics. Awarded his chair last year, Professor Faragher’s lecture...
News article 15 Oct 2015 Institute of Directors (IoD) visit to LSTM This week LSTM played host to a visit from the Institute of Director (IoD), as over 40 of their members were offered a tour and were given...
News article 12 Oct 2015 COUNTDOWN Consortium launches in Cameroon The COUNTDOWN programme in Cameroon was launched on the 9 October by the Ministry of Public Health. The launch was overseen by His Excellency the...
© Flickr Creative Commons. Photo ID: GH015S04 World Bank News article 8 Oct 2015 Salmonella unmasked as major killer of young children in Africa Invasive Salmonella infections in sub-Saharan Africa are a major cause of child illness and deaths, a new body of research into this usually...
Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes feeding on blood News article 8 Oct 2015 LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, outlines 15 years of malaria interventions in Africa in Nature journal In an editorial in the weekly science journal Nature, LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, looks at how the last 15 years of control measures...
News article 7 Oct 2015 CMNH study for VSO: Impact of Ebola on maternal & newborn health in Sierra Leone Research carried out by LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) found that despite adequate numbers of maternal health workers showing...
News article 6 Oct 2015 STEM Ambassador training at LSTM In LSTM’s latest drive to encourage public engagement, MerseySTEM visited LSTM to provide STEM Ambassador training to 14 members of staff,...
News article 2 Oct 2015 Supporting community health workers so they can serve their communities Joanna Raven, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Working with community health workers (CHWs) is seen as a good solution to the problems of a...
News article 1 Oct 2015 New publications from CMNH: Improving the Availability and Quality of Healthcare for Mothers and Babies Series LSTM's Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) is delighted to announce a New Book Series, “Improving the Availability and Quality of...
Professor Kevin Marsh receives the Kingsley medal from LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway News article 30 Sep 2015 LSTM’s 100th Mary Kingsley Medal for Professor Kevin Marsh of the University of Oxford LSTM has awarded the 100th Mary Kingsley Medal to Dr Kevin Marsh, Professor in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, for his contribution to...
LSTM Professor Sally Theobald News article 30 Sep 2015 Highlighting the crucial role of gender analysis in work on health Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been proud to host the Steering Committee of RinGs earlier this week. RinGs is an initiative that...
© WHO Women waiting for pregnancy check-ups in Kamosondo, Port Loko district of Sierra Leone News article 29 Sep 2015 Latest study from MiP looks at alternative therapies to prevent malaria in pregnancy Researchers at LSTM, working with colleagues of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Kenya and USA, and from the Kenya Medical...
News article 28 Sep 2015 Applied Health Research & CAHRD Plenary at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Wellcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research “Measurement and Analytical Challenges in Applied Health Research”  Applied Health Research & CAHRD Plenary at the Annual Scientific...
News article 28 Sep 2015 LSTM joins Mersey Maritime network Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has become a member of Mersey Maritime. It allows LSTM to network with the maritime industry in the...
News article 25 Sep 2015 The Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics at LSTM welcomes industry partners from Janssen Pharmaceutica LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD) today welcome industry partners from Janssen Pharmaceutica, with representatives from both...
News article 24 Sep 2015 LSTM welcomes alumna Dr Letitia Obeng LSTM welcomed back a notable alumna this week as Dr Letitia Obeng from Ghana visited as part of the celebrations for her 90th birthday.
News article 24 Sep 2015 COUNTDOWN consortium expands its programmes and partnerships in Nigeria. The COUNTDOWN consortium, hosted at LSTM, has been awarded extra funding to expand its programmes and partnerships in Nigeria. 
News article 23 Sep 2015 An update from Sierra Leone: Getting beyond zero – Dr Tim O’Dempsey The Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, having peaked in December 2014 with over 500 cases per week, thankfully appears to be coming to an end. 
News article 18 Sep 2015 WTCGHR Scientists call for improved health service delivery through quality research and collaborations This year’s Annual Scientific Meeting of the Wellcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research (WTCGHR) has ended with a call for...
News article 18 Sep 2015 LSTM's Dr Robert Harrison organises prestigious Hinxton Retreat on tropical snakebite victims Dr Robert Harrison, the Head of LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, has organised a prestigious Hinxton Retreat at the Wellcome Genome Campus...
News article 18 Sep 2015 Volunteers needed for nasal spray flu vaccination study LSTM’s respiratory group is currently recruiting volunteers for their study looking at the effect of the new nasal spray flu vaccination on the...
Tulip Mazumdar BBC World visits the Venom Research Unit News article 11 Sep 2015 Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit in the news LSTM’s Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit has been featured in the news several times in the last week, highlighting the work being carried out by the...
News article 9 Sep 2015 PNAS article: Widespread convergence in toxin resistance by predictable molecular evolution Researchers, including Dr. Casewell of LSTM, have shown that under certain circumstances evolution can be highly predictable, especially in terms of...

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