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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...
News article 5 Feb 2014 New Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene gets underway This week 88 doctors from as far afield as Australia, China, Pakistan, USA and Europe, join us for the three month Diploma in Tropical Medicine and...
News article 4 Feb 2014 LSTM’s Capacity Research Unit meets with APPG Global Health on volunteer programmes in the NHS Members of LSTM’s Capacity Research Unit (CRU) met with Dr Jonty Roland, Policy Director at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health...
News article 31 Jan 2014 MSc Poster Day Masters in ‘Biology and Control of Parasites & Disease Vectors’ student Andrew Blanshard, has won ‘Best Poster’ at the MSc poster day on...
News article 30 Jan 2014 CMNH to evaluate Health Transition Fund in Zimbabwe This February, the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) will begin fieldwork in Zimbabwe which will contribute to the Mid-Term Report in the...
News article 30 Jan 2014 Liverpool school wins “Doctor for the Day" LSTM’s Dr Nick Beeching dropped into Carleton House Preparatory School today after the school won a competition run by the Royal Liverpool...
News article 29 Jan 2014 CAPS study partner shortlisted for green award A key partner in the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has been shortlisted for a prestigious environmental award in the UK.
News article 29 Jan 2014 Microbial Cytochromes P450: drug targeting in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and biotechnological applications LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Professor Andrew Munro based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology...
News article 27 Jan 2014 LSTM’s Leverhulme Lecture 2014 to be delivered by World Bank director Dr Tim Evans Dr Tim Evans, Director Health, Nutrition and Population of the World Bank, will deliver the LSTM Leverhulme Lecture 2014. 
News article 23 Jan 2014 Topical probiotics – new approaches to the maintenance and repair of the skin barrier LSTM’s seminar series continued yesterday with a presentation by Dr Catherine O’Neill, senior lecturer within the Dermatology group of the University...
News article 23 Jan 2014 ReBUILD expands its research portfolio for 2014 During the last 12 months, five affiliates of ReBUILD, a research consortium funded by DFID to deliver new knowledge to inform the development of pro...
News article 22 Jan 2014 Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults A second systematic review of a diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has confirmed the accuracy of...
News article 21 Jan 2014 Cochrane review of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria ‘Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine is more effective than artemether-lumefantrine, and has fewer side effects than artesunate-mefloquine’ concludes a...
News article 20 Jan 2014 The Manson Christmas Lecture - Now online The Manson Christmas Lecture, delivered by Emeritus Professor and Senior Professional Fellow, David Molyneux at the Royal Society of Tropical...
News article 15 Jan 2014 Masterclass HIV in Resource Limited Settings A new short course is due to start at LSTM next week entitled “Masterclass HIV in Resource Limited Settings”. The course will run for two weeks and...
News article 13 Jan 2014 LSTM will host 33rd Annual European Course on Tropical Epidemiology For the fourth time LSTM will host the annual European course on Tropical Epidemiology. The course is scheduled from 18 August to 5 September 2014....
News article 13 Jan 2014 Well Travelled Clinic - World Cup advice Experts at LSTM’s Well Travelled Clinics (WTC) are providing information and advice relevant to England football fans travelling to Brazil...
News article 10 Jan 2014 Development of improved surveillance technologies for adult Aedes albopictus LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Daniel L Kline, Research Entomologist at USDA-ARS – Centre for Medical,...
News article 10 Jan 2014 £4 million for health protection research LSTM is part of a project to receive a multi-million pound award from the National Institute for Health Research to establish a Health...
News article 9 Jan 2014 Anson House to be refurbished The hoardings are up as work is now fully underway on the repurposing and refurbishment of Anson House as part of LSTM’s continued programme of...
News article 7 Jan 2014 A new website for CMNH LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) have launched a new look website to highlight their research and life-saving work in...
News article 20 Dec 2013 LSTM Christmas Closure Please note 
News article 19 Dec 2013 Successful Diploma in Tropical Nursing course completes its second session for 2013 This week has seen the end of LSTM’s three week Diploma in Tropical Nursing course. This is the second time that the course has been run this year,...
News article 18 Dec 2013 African Programme for Onchocericasis Control (APOC) adopts doxycycline as an alternative therapy for the elimination of onchocerciasis. Doxycycline therapy, which targets the essential symbiont Wolbachia, sterilizes and kills the long-lived adult Onchocerca volvulus ...
News article 18 Dec 2013 Dr Charles Wondji awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship Dr Charles Wondji has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences for five years which will support his work...
News article 17 Dec 2013 Creepy Crawly weekend at Liverpool Museum Liverpool’s World Museum hosted the second Creepy Crawly Weekend organised by LSTM’s Vector Biology Department in cooperation...
News article 15 Dec 2013 END fund supports LSTM projects in Ethiopia and DRC The American based END fund has awarded LSTM’s Dr Maria Rebollo Polo from the Centre of Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) to lead two...
News article 13 Dec 2013 The BBSome Complex – A novel virulence factor in Leishmania LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Helen Price of the School of Life Sciences, Keele University. “The...
News article 13 Dec 2013 LSTM's 114th Annual General Meeting Today LSTM’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) has taken place, with members of the board, trustees, assistant directors along with staff and invited...
News article 13 Dec 2013 Deputy Director Professor Stephen Ward receives the Sornchai Looressuwan Medal in Thailand Professor Stephen Ward, Deputy Director of LSTM, has been awarded the 2013 Sornchai Looressuwan Medal in Thailand, which is given annually to...
News article 12 Dec 2013 LSTM Graduating Class of 2013 LSTM’s class of 2013 will graduate this afternoon at Royal Liverpool Philharomic Hall. The graduating class of 61 MSc students, along with four of...
News article 11 Dec 2013 Professor David Molyneux delivers the Manson Christmas lecture Emeritus Professor and Senior Professional Fellow, David Molyneux, has this morning delivered the Manson Christmas Lecture at the Royal...
News article 11 Dec 2013 The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) begins The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has started in earnest this week, with 50 of the 150 villages signed up for the programme starting. Over...
News article 10 Dec 2013 Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group examines the data on MDA and larvivorous fish The benefits of mass drug administration (MDA), as part of malaria elimination programmes, may not be sustained for more than a few months, according...
News article 4 Dec 2013 LSTM seminar series From bench to field: The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Professor Jane Carlton, Director of the Center for the Genomics and Systems...
News article 3 Dec 2013 LSTM researchers among first to sequence snake genome Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work...
News article 29 Nov 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Current Status and Future Control of Leishmaniasis The LSTM Seminar Series continued on Friday with a talk given by Dr Daniel Argaw Dagne of WHO’s Department of Neglected Tropical...
News article 29 Nov 2013 APPMG releases 4th Annual Neglected Tropical Diseases Report The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG), met in London today to review, discuss and release their 4th...
News article 29 Nov 2013 LSTM hosts third ‘Annual Health in Humanitarian Settings’ Research Symposium Thursday saw LSTM play host to the 3rd Annual Health in Humanitarian Settings: Research Symposium. Students and staff from a number of British...
News article 28 Nov 2013 LSTM’s seminar series: Dyskinetoplastic trypanosomes – how to put tsetse flies and a few hundred mitochondrial proteins out of business LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Achim Schnaufer of the Institute for Immunology and Infection,...

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