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Heritage lottery logo News article 26 Oct 2022 LSTM awarded National Lottery funding to bring its heritage and history to life in the heart of Liverpool communities LSTM is celebrating an award of just under £145,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The funding will support an exciting programme of...
Professor Robert “Bob” Howells News article 25 Oct 2022 In Memoriam Professor Robert “Bob” Howells The School is sad to announce that Professor Robert “Bob” Howells died in September. 
News article 17 Oct 2022 LSTM is awarded the Athena Swan Silver Award, for its advancement of gender equality at the school LSTM is delighted to announce it has been awarded the Athena Swan Silver charter mark, for its ongoing work to promote gender equality.
Professor Charles Wondji News article 14 Oct 2022 LSTM celebrates its 125th anniversary by launching a campaign to help build resilience, skills, and capacity in lower income countries LSTM is celebrating 125 years of expertise in science, research, and innovation. The school is marking its 125th anniversary by looking to the future...
News article 13 Oct 2022 LSTM scores very highly for research management, working with public, and the third sector, under the new Knowledge Exchange Framework 2 (KEF 2) performance indicators UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) is designed to give an evidence-based insight into how English higher...
Professor Henry Mwandumba News article 13 Oct 2022 Professor Henry Mwandumba, MLW awarded 2022 Weber-Parkes Prize by Royal College of Physicians Professor Henry Mwandumba, Interim Director of the Malawi Liverpool Research Programme, is receiving a prestigious award for his ground-breaking work...
News article 12 Oct 2022 New study finds that monkeypox virus can spread widely within specialist hospital isolation rooms In hospital isolation rooms containing patients with monkeypox, viral DNA was found on multiple surfaces, personal protective equipment (PPE), and in...
News article 7 Oct 2022 New Hope for Malaria Prevention in at-Risk Children Every 75 seconds, roughly the time it takes to drink a glass of water or return an email, a child under the age of five dies of malaria. The toll is...
A typical example of improved housing beside a mosquito-producing rice field in rural Tanzania, constructed using bricks, timber and iron sheeting plus netting screens fitted over the windows. News article 6 Oct 2022 Cochrane Review demonstrates simple house modifications may be an important tool, as part of vector control, to reduce malaria burden Installing mosquito screening over house windows and closing the gaps in house eaves can help reduce infection with Plasmodium parasites and the...
News article 6 Oct 2022 LSTM has been celebrating the wonderful work of our Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and technicians LSTM has been championing and celebrating the work of our Early Career Researchers, this month, as part of Post Doc Appreciation and Technician...
News article 3 Oct 2022 LSTM’s Dr Shaun Pennington wins Early Career Professional Award LSTM is pleased to announce that Dr Shaun Pennington, an immunologist and microbiologist at the school, has been awarded the Early Career...
News article 30 Sep 2022 Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme comes to an end after 6 years After 6 years the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme, in which LSTM is a partner, has come to an end.  The K4D...
News article 13 Sep 2022 New blended learning package launched to improve quality in ANC and PNC The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM), Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit has launched an innovative blended learning approach...
News article 7 Sep 2022 Unitaid launches major new investment implemented by LSTM and FIND to increase TB detection and find the missing millions More than 10 million people each year fall ill with tuberculosis (TB), a highly infectious airborne disease that caused approximately 1.5 million...
E.coli grown on an agar plate held against the sky News article 6 Sep 2022 New LSTM-led research sheds light on how antibiotic use can help drive drug resistant infections Research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), highlights the need for antimicrobial stewardship to be targeted and research-led – if...
News article 1 Sep 2022 LSTM shortlisted for Times Higher Education Awards 2022 LSTM is delighted to have been shortlisted, in two separate categories, for this year’s Times Higher Educational Awards.
News article 19 Aug 2022 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium has been awarded £1.6 million from the Medical Research Council The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium (TIDC) has been awarded £1.6 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) via the Impact Acceleration...
News article 2 Aug 2022 Liverpool Echo joins us in the call for your LSTM stories for our 125 Anniversary
News article 28 Jul 2022 LSTM at the Bluedot festival LSTM has been out in force this weekend at this year’s BlueDot Festival, at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. This year was the first time the BlueDot...
News article 25 Jul 2022 Do questionnaires, pill counts, or gadgets tell health staff if people with HIV are taking their drugs? Health staff sometimes use questionnaires, counting pills, pharmacy notes, or gadgets to estimate if people with HIV are taking their antiretroviral...
L-R Sean Fenner, Regional Director, Keir – Professor David Lalloo, Director, LSTM – Professor Janet Hemingway, Director iiCON – Bob Adams, Director, iiCON News article 14 Jul 2022 Landmark Liverpool City Region infection innovation centre celebrates key development milestone A major milestone in the construction of a new multi-million-pound centre that will develop the next generation of global health leaders has been...
News article 6 Jul 2022 Welcoming Professor Sarah Staedke Professor Sarah Staedke is one of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM) new professorial appointments. Sarah is joining us from London...
News article 24 Jun 2022 LSTM and Partners Win at the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2022 LSTM’s Liverpool Vaccine Group and partners have won the COVID-19 Research and Innovation category at the North West Coast Research and Innovations...
News article 23 Jun 2022 LSTM’s Dr Elena Mitsi awarded the Robert Austrian Research Award LSTM’s Dr Elena Mitsi was awarded the Robert Austrian Research Award this week the 12th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal...
News article 22 Jun 2022 ‘Grand Gold’ for Bump It Forward Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM) Bump It Forward campaign has won Grand Gold in the international Circle of Excellence competition of...
News article 21 Jun 2022 Ivermectin for COVID-19 review update: 11 trials and no evidence of benefit shown There remains no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection, state the authors of an updated Cochrane...
News article 16 Jun 2022 Senior civil servants visit LSTM and co-hosts to learn more about the world-leading research and industry collaboration A delegation of senior civil servants visited the Liverpool City Region (LCR) to learn more about the world-leading research and industry...
News article 13 Jun 2022 MLW/LSTM secures £2.5m to explore population exposure of SARS-CoV-2 and other vaccine-preventable diseases in urban and rural Malawi through the SEROSURV project A team led by Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme (MLW) and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded £2.5 million by The Bill...
Image of a young woman on a leafy avenue News article 10 Jun 2022 Liverpool vaccine equity programme marks key milestone with celebratory learning day An innovative community-led programme with an ambition to halve levels of vaccine inequity in Liverpool has hosted a celebratory learning event to...
News article 8 Jun 2022 LSTM collaborator and recipient of the Mary Kingsley Medal, Professor David Warrell awarded knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours list Long term LSTM collaborator and recipient of the Mary Kingsley Medal, Professor David Warrell has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday...
News article 7 Jun 2022 Hamish Ogston Foundation funding for LSTM early career researchers in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee In honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee the Hamish Ogston Foundation has donated £100,000 to LSTM for early career researchers to develop...
Market,Tata Somba, Benin News article 26 May 2022 How can we accurately estimate health service coverage without survey data? A new study involving LSTM’s Department of International Public Health is shining a light on the problem of inaccurate health service monitoring and...
Skin and soft tissue manifestations of monkeypox. Credit: Lancet Infectious Diseases News article 24 May 2022 Human monkeypox virus in the UK: A retrospective study Clinicians from LSTM, in conjunction with the Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, are part of the NHS...
News article 23 May 2022 LSTM welcomes UTC Life Sciences and Calderstones students for International Clinical Trials Day Last week saw over thirty Year 12 students and their teachers from Liverpool Life Sciences University Technical College (UTC) and Calderstones School...
News article 18 May 2022 Review of 2022 WHO guidelines on the control and elimination of schistosomiasis. LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard has worked with an international team of researchers to undertake a companion review of the scientific rationale...
News article 12 May 2022 International Nurses Day 2022
News article 12 May 2022 LSTM ranks 2nd in UK for impact and 12th overall in REF2021 In our first independent submission to the REF, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been recognised for the outstanding impact of our...
News article 11 May 2022 ‘Deadly Diseases and Creepy Crawlies’ at Pint of Science Liverpool Liverpool hosted Pint of Science, an annual three-day festival that brings engaging science and latest research findings to pubs and bars across the...
News article 10 May 2022 Directorship of MLW Professor Stephen Gordon will be stepping down from Directorship of the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome (MLW)Trust Clinical Research Programme on the 31st...
iiCON has supported 11 new products to market in 18 months News article 6 May 2022 iiCON supports 11 new products to market in first 18 months The LSTM-led consortium, iiCON: Infection Innovation Consortium, has supported 11 new products to market since launching in September 2020, with a...

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