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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...
News article 5 May 2022 Our new Midwifery Educator CPD programme
News article 4 May 2022 International Day of the Midwife 2022
News article 26 Apr 2022 Global insights support programme to boost vaccine uptake within Liverpool communities An innovative programme that leverages global health learnings and is driven by community-led innovation teams has launched with an ambition to halve...
News article 26 Apr 2022 Global rollout of rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis over the last 12 years: Cochrane Review summarizes research on recipient and provider views A potential game-changer in the tuberculosis epidemic was how the tuberculosis community viewed rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and...
BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG) visualization of prophage regions in the genomes of wNo, wAnM and wAnD when compared to one another. News article 21 Apr 2022 Researchers from LSTM complete analysis of Wolbachia bacterial endosymbiont strains that infect Anopheles mosquitoes Researchers from LSTM have now completed an in-depth analysis of the genomes for two Wolbachia bacterial endosymbiont strains that infect Anopheles...
Culex quinquefasciatus News article 12 Apr 2022 Inter-species microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes LSTM scientists working alongside the University of Wisconsin have developed a system allowing them to transplant the entire microbiomes from one...
News article 5 Apr 2022 A new role for anti-Wolbachia therapy of lymphatic filariasis – blocking the transmission of the parasite through mosquitoes. Researchers from LSTM have demonstrated that the depletion of Wolbachia, a bacterial symbiont, required for the growth and survival of the parasite...
The BioNow Award winners News article 4 Apr 2022 iiCON and LSTM recognised at BioNow Awards iiCON: Infection Innovation Consortium and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have been recognised at the BioNow Awards, receiving the...
Distribution of ivermectin. Photo credit: Pak Sang Lee. News article 1 Apr 2022 LSTM researchers demonstrate vector control strategies are needed alongside mass drug administration programmes to achieve Onchocerciasis elimination Researchers from LSTM, along with colleagues in the UK, Burkina Faso, and Cameroon, have demonstrated that vector control strategies are needed...
News article 1 Apr 2022 LSTM researchers, alongside an international team, promote equitable authorship An international team, including LSTM’s Dr Sepeedeh Saleh and Dr Eva Heinz in collaboration with Prof. Refiloe Masekela (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal...
Impact TB celebrate World TB Day 2022 News article 24 Mar 2022 World TB Day 2022
News article 23 Mar 2022 Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a global health emergency LSTM’s Dr Tom Wingfield has jointly led a national retrospective cohort study in Sierra Leone looking at the social and health factors that are...
News article 21 Mar 2022 LSTM welcomes three new Trustees to its Board New Trustees Ingrid Etoke and Neil Squires will bring their extensive experience to LSTM’s Board along with Helen Savage, who was appointed as the...
News article 14 Mar 2022 CIDG joint winner of the inaugural Harding Prize for Useful and Trustworthy Communication The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group Review of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 has been recognised with the inaugural Harding Prize for Useful and...
News article 11 Mar 2022 Suicide in refugees: a systematic review Refugees, and other forcibly displaced people, face mental distress and may be disproportionately affected by risk factors for suicide. Little is...
News article 10 Mar 2022 LSTM PhD students among those recognised at the Pandemic Institute's first Student Excellence Awards LSTM students are among the winners of the Pandemic Institute’s first Student Excellence Awards, taking three of the five awards on offer. Presented...
News article 8 Mar 2022 £1.3M to develop new inhaled drug delivery platforms to treat viral and bacterial infections LSTM in partnership with the The University of Liverpool  have joined forces on a £1.3million research project to develop new inhaled drug...
News article 8 Mar 2022 International Women's Day 2022
News article 8 Mar 2022 LSTM launches spinout 'iiDiagnostics' to support industry academic co-innovation LSTM has launched a spinout, iiDiagnostics, to enable industry engagement and commercial access to the world-leading diagnostics R&D capability...
News article 2 Mar 2022 Dr Álvaro Acosta Serrano wins 2022 CA Wright medal LSTM’s Dr Álvaro Acosta Serrano has been awarded highest honour of the British Society for Parasitology as he is named as the recipient of this year’...

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