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News article 25 Apr 2014 Researchers at LSTM part of the international team to sequence the tsetse genome Researchers from LSTM are among those who have sequenced the genome of a species of tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans). The outcomes of this research...
News article 24 Apr 2014 World Malaria Day 2014: Insecticide Quantification Kit Today is World Malaria Day. It provides an opportunity to look back at what has already been achieved in the fight against the disease, but also to...
News article 22 Apr 2014 Applied Bioinformatics MSc Poster Day: Bioinformatic Analysis of a Gene Sequence Applied Bioinformatics MSc student James Osborne has been awarded First Prize for his poster and presentation at the annual Bioinformatics MSc Poster...
News article 18 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Health Economics of Health Service Delivery…Not the Same as Health Economics for HTA Decisions turn on preferences and probabilities, yet the human mind is notoriously bad at computing probabilities. The mind is prone to error and the...
News article 18 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series Report: Evidence for Global Malaria Policy: briefing session The LSTM Seminar Series continued on Wednesday with a presentation delivered by LSTM’s Dr David Sinclair and Professor Paul Garner, who are part of...
News article 17 Apr 2014 More Research called for into HIV and schistosomiasis coinfection in African children Researchers from LSTM have called for more research to be carried out into HIV and schistosomiasis coinfection in children in sub-Saharan Africa. In...
News article 17 Apr 2014 Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in rural Africa can reduce wastage of antimalarial drugs but may not improve patient health outcomes Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group conducted a review of the effects of introducing rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for diagnosing...
News article 16 Apr 2014 LSTM supports Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme IT upgrade Eric Healing, Director of IT Services, recently visited the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) in Blantyre,...
News article 9 Apr 2014 The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning 2014 The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning is a short course designed to enhance the teaching skills of LSTM staff.  Participants...
News article 8 Apr 2014 Putting the C back into the ABCs: A multi-year, multi-region investigation of condom use by Ugandan youths 2003-2010 Researchers from LSTM have discovered that among young people (between 15-24 years) in Uganda, those using a condom during their sexual debut are...
News article 8 Apr 2014 AvecNet launch the new look website The FP7 supported consortium AvecNet has launched a new look website to highlight the work that they are undertaking to prevent the spread...
News article 4 Apr 2014 LSTM Seminar Series review: Dr Steffanie Knopp, Schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic trematode worms, infecting people in 78 countries, when they are exposed to infested water. The...
News article 2 Apr 2014 LSTM seeks candidates for the Thomas Mark Scholarship in Tropical Paediatrics LSTM is now inviting applications to the highly competitiveThomas Mark Scholarship, established to support a student undertaking the MSc in...
News article 1 Apr 2014 Does good-quality housing protect against malaria The LSTM Seminar Series continued on Friday with a presentation delivered by Professor Steve Lindsay, from the School of Biological and Biomedical...
News article 28 Mar 2014 Science Without Borders In April 2014, senior post-doctoral researcher, Dr Daniela Ferreira will be traveling to Brazil to visit the top universities of the State...
News article 27 Mar 2014 Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group plays host to visiting fellows The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, based at LSTM, has been playing host to two visiting fellows from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research...
News article 27 Mar 2014 Seminar Series Review: Time, love and disease: Sensory ecology and molecular basis of insect mechanosensation LSTM Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Joerg T Albert, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience, at University College London’s Ear...
News article 26 Mar 2014 CMNH staff visit Sierra Leone projects Two Liverpool-based members of staff from LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) have just got back from a visit to Sierra...
News article 21 Mar 2014 Researchers at LSTM unlock the secret of multiple insecticide resistance in mosquitoes Researchers at LSTM have discovered how unprecedented multiple and extreme-level resistance is generated in mosquitoes found in the rice fields of...
News article 20 Mar 2014 GHIT grant for new Anti-Wolbachia drug discovery The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) together with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry (University of Liverpool (UoL)) and Japanese...
News article 19 Mar 2014 Postcard from Bungoma, Kenya Tessa Snelgar, a midwife from Oxford recently returned from Bungoma where she went to facilitate an Emergency Obstetric Care and Newborn Care (EOC...
News article 17 Mar 2014 Dr Daniela Ferreira - Developing a protein-based vaccine: What we can learn from experimental human carriage? Last week, Senior Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Daniela Ferreira, visited Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen in the Netherlands, to...
News article 14 Mar 2014 LSTM opens joint drug discovery lab in China A group of senior researchers, led by LSTM’s Deputy Director, Professor Steve Ward, is in China this week as part of the Liverpool-Guangdong...
News article 13 Mar 2014 LSTM delegation attends the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases The 9th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases was held March 9-13, 2014 in Hyderabad, India. The symposium, held...
News article 13 Mar 2014 Seminar Series report. All in good time : Biochemistry and evolution of insect P450 enzymes LSTM Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr. René Feyereisen, Director of Research at the Institut National de la...
News article 10 Mar 2014 CMNH study looks at reasons for preterm birth in Malawi There is no evidence that HIV is a factor in preterm birth in Africa according research carried out by LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health...
News article 10 Mar 2014 2000 under 5's recruited to the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has reached a significant milestone with over 2000 children under 5 recruited to the study. It is now the...
News article 7 Mar 2014 LSTM celebrates International Women’s Day To mark International Women’s Day this weekend and to draw attention to ongoing challenges faced by women all over the world, researchers from LSTM...
News article 7 Mar 2014 Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium: Apply now for awards to expand and accelerate product development – deadline 4 April 2014 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept Award of £500,000 which can be allocated to individual projects...
News article 4 Mar 2014 LSTM Podcast launch episode LSTM research staff and students have launched a monthly podcast highlighting some of the work being carried out at LSTM. In this first edition PhD...
News article 3 Mar 2014 International students study for Diploma in Reproductive Health LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) is currently training 25 students on their Diploma in Reproductive Health in...
News article 27 Feb 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Behavioural Genetics of Assortative Mating in Anopheles gambiae LSTM’s latest seminar examined the genetic basis of assortative mating behaviour in Anopheles gambiae, presented by Dr Frederic Tripet,...
News article 25 Feb 2014 Researchers at LSTM crack the genetic secret of mosquito resistance to DDT and bed net insecticides Researchers from LSTM have found that a single genetic mutation causes resistance to DDT and pyrethroids (an insecticide class used in mosquito nets...
News article 21 Feb 2014 CMNH training for 2014 gets underway Training has got underway at the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) this year with two courses being run this February.
News article 17 Feb 2014 Royal College of Defence Studies visit to LSTM Last week LSTM played host to 17 delegates from the Royal College of Defence Studies, which forms part of the UK Defence Academy in London. The...
News article 14 Feb 2014 LSTM Researcher wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize LSTM’s Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Dr Hanafy M. Ismail, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Book Poster Prize at the New Perspectives...
News article 14 Feb 2014 Seminar Series: Plasmodium: a treasure chest of molecular targets to chase LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Ilaria Russo, an honorary research fellow at LSTM, who has recently joined the...
News article 13 Feb 2014 MRC funds BREATHE Africa Partnership to improve the research into the health effects of Household Air Pollution The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced £580,000 of funding to facilitate collaboration between established trial sites and to increase...
News article 11 Feb 2014 Helping health professionals to fight yellow fever LSTM is today hosting a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC) course to provide training to health professionals who are mostly new to yellow fever...
News article 6 Feb 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Mitochondrial metabolism of the Apicomplexa LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Dr James MacRae, Head of Metabolomics at the National Institute for Medical...

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