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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’...
News article 21 Feb 2022 LSTM researchers explore SARS-CoV-2 and Streptococcus pneumoniae co-infection. LSTM researchers, in collaboration with scientists from Oxford and the US, have investigated the immunological consequences of SARS-CoV-2 and...
News article 17 Feb 2022 Community views on mass drug administration for filariasis: a qualitative evidence synthesis Mass drug administration means giving every person living in a village or region a drug, irrespective of whether they have the disease or not. It’s...
Human cells normally infected with SARS-CoV-2, here shown in green (left). Upon treatment with a sub-inhibitory dose of a glycosylation inhibitor, the infection is greatly reduced (right) News article 15 Feb 2022 LSTM researchers find targeting glycosylation blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection Researchers at LSTM have shown that by targeting glycosylation, a process by which SARS-CoV-2 (the infective agent of COVID-19) modifies its...
News article 14 Feb 2022 Independent report into Race Equality within LSTM An independent report has highlighted that some staff of colour have encountered racial discrimination within LSTM.In addition, the report raised...
LSTM Tropical Disease Biology and Vector Researchers undertaking Vector surveillance in Malawi News article 10 Feb 2022 LSTM secures £2.6m to explore and control vector borne diseases in emerging agricultural systems in Malawi through the Shire-Vec project Researchers at LSTM have been awarded £2.6 million from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to establish a research group on controlling...
News article 9 Feb 2022 UNFPA launches new series of e-learning resources on key life saving skills with LSTM input The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, has launched a new series of e-learning midwifery training resources for midwives and other maternity...
News article 4 Feb 2022 National HIV Testing Week LSTM is encouraging everyone to give HIV the finger as part National HIV Testing week between 7-11th February 2022!
News article 1 Feb 2022 The launch of LSTM’s ‘Connecting Citizens to Science’ podcast LSTM researchers, Dr. Kim Ozano and PhD student Bea Egid, have launched an LSTM podcast called ‘Connecting Citizens to Science’. Through a series of...
News article 28 Jan 2022 LSTM Graduation: Class of 2021 LSTM has held its annual graduation ceremony today, being held virtually and delayed from its usual December slot to ensure that all graduands could...
person holding medicines and drinking water News article 26 Jan 2022 Researchers assess the impact of expanding the age range of children given seasonal anti-malarials in Burkina Faso Researchers at LSTM, working with partners in the UK and Burkina Faso, have found that extending the age range of children receiving seasonal malaria...
Health professionals in PPE funded by #BumpItForward News article 20 Jan 2022 One year of the #BumpItForward campaign One year ago (21st January 2021) LSTM launched the #BumpItForward campaign and has raised over £285,000 and provided more than 1.3 million items of...
Female scientist working in high-security laboratory News article 17 Jan 2022 LSTM and iiCON secure funding for next-generation high-security lab development LSTM and the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON) have secured a £500,000 grant that will support the development of new state-of-the-art...
Dr Cat Morris (right) with Dr Mary Cusack and one of the children their NGO looks after in Odisha, India. News article 12 Jan 2022 OBE's for LSTM alumni Dr Mary Cusack and Dr Cat Morris It was during a two-week humanitarian trip to India that Dr Cat Morris found her calling. Little did she know that she would still be there 15 years...
News article 11 Jan 2022 LSTM alumna Dr Letitia Obeng honoured in latest development of £1bn Paddington Village LSTM alumna Dr Letitia Obeng has been honoured as a Liverpool Health Pioneer this week when a meeting room in the 16 storey Novotel Hotel in...
News article 7 Jan 2022 LSTM receives £2,000,000 from OfS for renovation of Pembroke House LSTM has received a grant of £2M from the Office for Students (OfS) for the renovation of Pembroke House at its Liverpool campus.
A trial volunteer taking the new drug. Photo by Kate Dodd News article 6 Jan 2022 First in human trial for new drug targeting LF and onchocerciasis starts in Liverpool A new drug developed by an LSTM led partnership, which targets the neglected tropical diseases lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis has begun its...
News article 21 Dec 2021 LSTM's Christmas closure 2021/22
Small village Kartong, The Gambia News article 8 Dec 2021 Interactions between fecal gut microbiome, enteric pathogens, and energy regulating hormones among acutely malnourished rural Gambian children LSTM’s Dr Helen Nabwera is first author on a paper published in EBioMedicine, which looks at interactions between faecal gut microbiome, enteric...
News article 8 Dec 2021 Interactions between fecal gut microbiome, enteric pathogens, and energy regulating hormones among acutely malnourished rural Gambian children LSTM’s Dr Helen Nabwera is first author on a paper published in EBioMedicine looking at interactions between faecal gut microbiome, enteric pathogens...
News article 30 Nov 2021 World AIDS Day 2021

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