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News article 12 Jun 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Diagnostic Development and Evaluation – Towards the End-game? LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Emily Adams - Lecturer in Tropical Diagnostics at LSTM’s Department of...
News article 12 Jun 2013 LSTM evaluates Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Awards LSTM’s Professor Imelda Bates and Dr Janet Njelesani from the Capacity Research Unit at LSTM were invited to present...
News article 7 Jun 2013 LSTM Maths/Stats Forum: statistical modelling of antimalarial drug trials The Maths/Stats Forum at LSTM is a monthly meeting of staff and postgraduate students involved in research activities with a mathematical, modelling...
News article 7 Jun 2013 Study: A novel pathway implicated in severe malaria in African children In a recent online prepublication of Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, lead author Chris Moxon and co-...
News article 6 Jun 2013 T-REC’s Annual Meeting 2013 T-REC partners met on 3 June 2013 at the 23rd International Congress of the International Society Blood Transfusion (ISBT) in Amsterdam, to...
News article 5 Jun 2013 First meeting of Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) Steering Committee LSTM hosted the first meeting of the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) Trial Steering Committee to discuss various aspects around this cluster...
News article 4 Jun 2013 Nature: Inflammatory Flt3l is essential to mobilize dendritic cells and for T cell responses during Plasmodium infection The advanced online edition of Nature Medicine published an article that showed that CD8α+CD103+ dendritic cells expand...
News article 31 May 2013 Study: Introducing best practice for developing guidelines at WHO; progress made, but not always welcome The World Health Organization (WHO) has improved the way it develops global guidelines, but the procedures put in place to assure quality could still...
News article 30 May 2013 PLOS One: Innovative community-based approaches double TB case notification and improve treatment outcome in Ethiopia Community health workers—known as health extension workers in Ethiopia—have teamed up with motorbike riders to dramatic effort in Ethiopia’s Sidama...
News article 30 May 2013 Lessons from the NTD world on scaling up health innovation LSTM’s Emeritus Professor David Molyneux was a speaker at Tuesday’s Investing in Health Innovation – What Lessons for Eye Health? A seminar...
News article 29 May 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: The ecological immunity of bed bugs LSTM’s seminar series continued today with ‘The ecological immunity of bed bugs’, a  presentation by Professor Michael Siva-Jothy, Head of...
News article 24 May 2013 Launch of REACHOUT consortium held at LSTM LSTM yesterday hosted the launch of REACHOUT, a consortium of eight partners supported by a 5 year EU FP7 grant, coordinated by LSTM. The...
News article 23 May 2013 LSTM and University of Warwick: "Catalysing Applied Health Research" LSTM Professor Bertie Squire (pictured) gave a lecture today at the Medical School of the University of Warwick on 'Catalysing...
News article 22 May 2013 LSTM wins two prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration Grants from Gates Foundation LSTM’s Parasitology Department has won two prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration (GCE) grants, an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates...
News article 22 May 2013 Global recommendations on child medicines should show supporting evidence Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on paediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy...
News article 21 May 2013 LSTM Post Graduate Research Conference 2013 The annual Post Graduate Research Conference 2013, held in Liverpool’s Marriott Hotel, was attended by more than 100 research students, their...
News article 16 May 2013 Communication across cultures: Lessons from DFID programmes in Pakistan The Managing Director of DHA, Daniel Harris, gave an interactive presentation to LSTM students and staff as part of LSTM’s short course in...
News article 15 May 2013 4th IntHEC partners meeting in Niamey, Niger The partners of the Health, Education and Community Integration (IntHEC) consortium, led by LSTM’s Angela Obasi, are meeting in Niamey, Niger, to...
News article 13 May 2013 Prize winning research on insecticide resistance LSTM PhD student Ako Victorien Constant Edi has been designated a prize winner at the University of Liverpool postgraduate research Online Poster Day...
News article 9 May 2013 LSTM receives Clinical Pathology Accreditation LSTM’s Clinical Parasitology Diagnostic Laboratory has been accredited by Clinical Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd. The accreditation...
News article 8 May 2013 River Blindness transmission with ivermectin treatment: How long is mass drug administration needed? LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Poppy Lamberton, Research Associate in the Department of Infectious Disease...
News article 3 May 2013 Masters Project Presentation Day 2013 Yesterday 58 students from the MSc in International Public Health, MSc in Tropical and Infectious Diseases, MSc Tropical Paediatrics...
News article 2 May 2013 TB REACH project Ethiopia-LSTM wins prestigious medal in Ethiopia The TB REACH project Ethiopia-LSTM and its outcomes were presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the TB Research Advisory Committee, Federal...
News article 30 Apr 2013 Glasgow joins Liverpool in a new Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research Wellcome Trust awards over £750,000 to Centre to support young, talented scientists in global healthLiverpool, 30 April 2013 - The Wellcome...
News article 26 Apr 2013 Integration of malaria and NTD control programmes provides mutual benefits Professor Moses Bockarie, Director of the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, based at LSTM, has noticed a recent surge in publications...
News article 26 Apr 2013 LSTM receives esteemed Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of a host of new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit...
News article 25 Apr 2013 World Malaria Day 2013: call to invest in the future to defeat malaria Today is World Malaria Day. It provides an opportunity to look back on the progress that has been made in recent years and commit to maintaining that...
News article 24 Apr 2013 Evaluating the Health Transition Fund in Zimbabwe The Health Transition Fund (HTF) was announced in 2011 to revitalise Zimbabwe’s healthcare system in order to tackle the country’s high maternal...
News article 19 Apr 2013 Applied Bioinformatics Poster Day Masters in Biology and Control of Parasites and Disease Vectors student, Pelagie Boko, has won ‘Best Poster’ at LSTM’s Applied...
News article 18 Apr 2013 Study reveals the potential of Human Nasal Colonization as a Universal Pneumococcal Vaccine A study led by LSTM researchers and published in this week’s edition of theAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has...
News article 17 Apr 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: The Social Determinants of Health and Disability LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Raymond Lang, Honorary Senior Research Associate from the Leonard Cheshire...
News article 16 Apr 2013 LSTM present at RCN Congress in Liverpool LSTM will be exhibiting at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress at the ACC Liverpool from 21-24 April 2013. The congress is a free...
News article 12 Apr 2013 SPINE: Improving data collection in developing countries To quantify the disease burden in developing countries has always been a challenge as the data needed is often sparse and the quality of the data is...
News article 11 Apr 2013 Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Chair Andrew Miller MP visits LSTM Mr Andrew Miller MP, chair of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and member of the All-Party Group on Malaria & Neglected...
News article 10 Apr 2013 Chair of APPMG Jeremy LeFroy MP visits LSTM The Chair of the UK parliament’s All-Party Group on Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG), Jeremy LeFroy MP visited LSTM today...
News article 10 Apr 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Trypanosomes and Leishmania – drug targets in protein kinase gene families The seminar series continued today with a presentation by Professor Jeremy Mottram entitled: Trypanosomes and Leishmania: drug targets in...
News article 8 Apr 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Scaling-up HIV treatment in resource limited settings LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a lecture entitled ‘HIV treatment scale up in resource-limited settings: evolving global policy in a...
News article 8 Apr 2013 LSTM and UoL student Catrin Jones wins Royal Society of Medicine essay prize University of Liverpool medical student Catrin Jones, currently intercalating a MSc in Humanitarian Studies at LSTM, has won the Royal...
News article 4 Apr 2013 Household air pollution: a call for studies into biomarkers of exposure and predictors of respiratory disease Household air pollution (HAP) from indoor burning of biomass or coal is a leading global cause of infection and death, mostly due to its association...
News article 4 Apr 2013 New England Journal of Medicine: Combination antifungal therapy for cryptococcal meningitis LSTM’s Dean and professor David Lalloo is co-senior author of an influential study on combination antifungal therapy for cryptococcal...

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