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News article 10 Jul 2015 Seminar Series report: From complex interventions to complex systems: implications for evaluation LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a talk by Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical...
News article 10 Jul 2015 The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning 2015. The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning is a short course designed to enhance the teaching skills of LSTM staff.  Participants...
News article 6 Jul 2015 LSTM and RLBUHT Respiratory group win Chief Executive’s award The LSTM and Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital’s Respiratory Research Team received The Chief Executive’s Award at the recent Make...
News article 6 Jul 2015 LSTM’s Lady Bugs raise money for Cancer Research UK This weekend saw Cancer Research UK’s 5k Race for Life event at Sefton Park in Liverpool, and taking part was a team of 53 from LSTM called the Lady...
News article 6 Jul 2015 Book Launch: Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook Dr Tiago Antão, a Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow at LSTM has had a new book, Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook, published.
News article 6 Jul 2015 High Commissioner of Mozambique visits LSTM LSTM played host to a visit from the High Commissioner of the Republic of Mozambique, his Excellency Carlos dos Santos on Monday, when he met with...
News article 3 Jul 2015 Dept of Vector Biology showcases its work to industry partners LSTM’s Vector Biology department have opened their doors to industry partners, highlighting the unique variety of work that is undertaken from the...
News article 1 Jul 2015 Seminar Series report: Variation in vector competence of field populations of Aedes aegypti amd Aedes albocpictus LSTM’s seminar series continued last week with a presentation from Dr Paulo Pimenta from the Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Belo Horizonte, Brazil...
News article 30 Jun 2015 Researchers at LSTM find DDT-based IRS suboptimal for VL elimination in India Researchers at LSTM have found that due to widespread insecticide resistance and poor quality assurance of spraying activities, that DDT-based indoor...
News article 25 Jun 2015 Professor Hemingway is welcomed as an honorary fellow by the Faculty of Public Health LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway CBE is among seven eminent scientists being admitted to Honorary Fellowship by the by Faculty of Public...
News article 17 Jun 2015 Fundraising for LSTM at World Gin Day The historic link between quinine and the treatment of malaria was celebrated for World Gin Day on Saturday 13th June, when the makers of...
News article 16 Jun 2015 LSTM-MLW developed method to optimize antimalarial dosing improves treatment outcomes across Africa. A recent publication by the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) artesunate-amodiaquine (As-Aq) Study Group in BMC Medicine...
News article 10 Jun 2015 Professor Russell Stothard presents at schistosomiasis symposium LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard has been invited to present at a one day mini-symposium at Leiden University Medical Center in the...
News article 10 Jun 2015 Seminar Series report: Glycan-Based vaccine and biomarkers for Chagas disease LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a talk by Professor Igor C. Almeida, Director of the Biomolecule Analysis Core Facility and part of the...
News article 8 Jun 2015 Surviving Far East Captivity and the Aftermath: 70 Years on Following the recent launch of the book Captive Memories, based around LSTM’s longest running, scientific, medical and historical collaboration,...
News article 3 Jun 2015 University of Oxford Professor Kevin Marsh 100th recipient of LSTM’s Mary Kingsley Medal LSTM is delighted to announce that the 100th recipient of the Mary Kingsley medal, which has been awarded since 1903 for outstanding...
News article 2 Jun 2015 Looking forward a decade on: The future of tackling Neglected Tropical Diseases A PDF of the paper: Looking forward a decade on: The future of tackling Neglected Tropical Diseases  by David Molyneux, Emeritus...
News article 2 Jun 2015 LSTM welcomes visitors from North Queensland LSTM has played host to a delegation from North Queensland in Australia today, who are in Merseyside as guests of Liverpool Health Partners (LHP)....
News article 29 May 2015 Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group have updated an independent review to evaluate the effects of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT...
News article 29 May 2015 Seminar Series report: Operationalization of insecticide resistance monitoring in disease vectors in the Republic of the Philippines LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Ferdinand V. Salazar, Head of Dept. of Medical Entomology, Research Institute for...
News article 29 May 2015 Launch of the new book Captive Memories at the Liverpool Medical Institution LSTM’s Honorary Research Fellow Meg Parkes and Emeritus Professor Geoff Gill launched their new book Captive Memories at the Liverpool Medical...
News article 26 May 2015 Genomic data reveals emergence in Africa of drug resistant strain of typhoid Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, have...
News article 22 May 2015 Captive Memories Book launch Captive Memories, a new book by LSTM’s Honorary Fellow Meg Parkes and Emeritus Professor Geoff Gill, will launch next week at an event at the...
News article 21 May 2015 Serious Gaming Workshop The LSTM Serious Gaming team has concluded a two day workshop, to explore the value of integrating mathematical models for malaria control within a...
News article 19 May 2015 Liverpool to host the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health ACC Liverpool in Liverpool, UK has been chosen to host the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in 2016.The event is the premier...
News article 19 May 2015 Obituary: Professor Bill Macdonald Professor Bill Macdonald, Previous Dean of LSTM was buried yesterday, following his death at the end of April. Born in Glasgow 1927, his...
News article 13 May 2015 Seminar Series report: Ending Preventable Maternal & Newborn Deaths LSTM’s Seminar Series continued last week with a presentation by Dr Elizabeth Mason, former Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent...
News article 12 May 2015 New Cochrane Review assessing the effects of tafenoquine in people with Plasmodium vivax infection Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to assess the effects of tafenoquine in...
News article 8 May 2015 Scientists at LSTM examine the links between HAP and lung infection Scientists at LSTM have come a step closer to understanding why people exposed to household air pollution (HAP) are at higher risk of lung infections...
News article 7 May 2015 Appointment of Professor Shabbar Jaffar LSTM has announced the appointment of Professor Shabbar Jaffar as Head of the Department of International Public Health from 1st July 2015. 
News article 7 May 2015 CMNH wins BMJ award LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health’s Emergency (Essential) Obstetric Training has been declared the winner in the Women’s Health...
News article 1 May 2015 Evidence Synthesis for Global Health: programme of training Professor Sandy Oliver, Professor of Public Policy at University College London, and specialist in research synthesis, ran a workshop for staff this...
Courtesy of Gates Foundation: Water Gathering: A Major Mode of Acquisition & Transmission of Neglected Tropical Diseases News article 30 Apr 2015 David Molyneux at the G7 Dialogue Forum LSTM’s Emeritus Professor David Molyneux was a keynote speaker at the G7 Dialogue Forum – Science Conference this week ahead of the meeting of the G7...
News article 28 Apr 2015 Seminar Series Report: Development of Adhiron artificial binding proteins LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Professor Michael McPherson, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of...
News article 28 Apr 2015 LSTM students take all awards at BSP conference LSTM students swept the board for awards at the recent British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference, held in Liverpool...
News article 24 Apr 2015 World Malaria Day 2015 Saturday 25th April is World Malaria Day and it provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress that is being made at LSTM to fight the...
News article 23 Apr 2015 Laing O’Rourke donation supports malaria research at LSTM Leading international engineering enterprise, Laing O’Rourke, have pledged £1,000 for the purchase of an imaging system to help LSTM carry out their...
News article 20 Apr 2015 LSTM's Centre for Maternal & Newborn Health are cycling to Sierra Leone! LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) has begun their mammoth 4,247 mile cycling challenge to raise funds for urgently needed medical...
News article 17 Apr 2015 British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference This week has seen approximately 400 parasitologists gather at the British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference, which...
News article 16 Apr 2015 The 2015 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization, (WHO), delivered the prestigious LSTM Leverhulme Lecture at the...

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