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News article 30 Nov 2021 In Memoriam: Dr Keith Alexander Fletcher (1931-2021) It is with deep regret that LSTM has to announce that Dr Alec Fletcher, a long-term staff member for almost 40 years, passed away on 30th October,...
James, Anu, Hazel and Joseph, looking sharp at the awards ceremony. News article 26 Nov 2021 WHAT A NIGHT: Respond Africa Receive the Times Higher Education Award for Best International Collaboration 2021! We are thrilled to announce that Respond Africa have been awarded ‘Best International Collaboration of the Year’ at this years’ Time Higher Education...
News article 26 Nov 2021 LSTM endorses consensus statement promoting authorship equity in scientific publications LSTM has formally endorsed a recently published consensus statement on measures to promote equitable authorship in research publications from...
RESPOND Africa team members James Prior, Anu Garrib, Hazel Snell and Joseph Okebe receiving the award News article 26 Nov 2021 RESPOND-Africa partnership wins 'International Collaboration of the year' at THE Awards The RESPOND-Africa partnership lifted the ‘International Collaboration of the Year’trophy at the seventeenth annual Times Higher Education (THE)...
News article 25 Nov 2021 Strengthening Resilience against Sleeping Sickness in Malawi (STRESS) Researchers at LSTM have been awarded around £1M from the Medical Research Council, to produce an evidence-based tsetse control programme that...
LSTM Annual Report front cover News article 25 Nov 2021 LSTM’s 122nd Annual General Meeting – A successful year despite its challenges LSTM’s 122nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) has taken place. Held as a hybrid meeting and chaired by President Sir Richard Evans, most board members,...
News article 25 Nov 2021 New £5M project to screen for multimorbidity within hospitals in Africa Health researchers at LSTM and the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust have been awarded £5m to design and test a system which identifies patients...
iiCON website graphic News article 23 Nov 2021 iiCON launches new website to showcase industry offering The Infection Innovation Consortium, iiCON, has launched a new website to showcase its offering connecting industry with access to world-...
Professor Janet Hemingway News article 23 Nov 2021 BactiVac and iiCON strengthen collaborative partnership with MOU The Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON) and BactiVac have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will strengthen and support ongoing...
News article 19 Nov 2021 The Pandemic Institute announces £50k Student Excellence Award Liverpool’s Pandemic Institute has today launched a Student Excellence Award to support the career development of PhD students, thanks to a generous...
News article 18 Nov 2021 LSTM led partnership awarded £1.2M to research the role of antimicrobial stewardship in combatting AMR transmission LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts is leading a partnership which has been awarded £1.25 million from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial...
News article 18 Nov 2021 In Memoriam: Professor Malcolm Molyneux (1943 – 2021) It is with profound sadness that LSTM has to announce the death of one of its truly inspirational staff members: Professor Malcolm Molyneux OBE...
News article 17 Nov 2021 Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use The latest update of the Cochrane review ‘Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use’ has found that rotavirus vaccines pre-...
News article 10 Nov 2021 World Pneumonia Day 2021
News article 10 Nov 2021 COUNTDOWN programme comes to an end after 7 years COUNTDOWN, a 7-year Implementation Research Consortium undertaken with £11 million funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office,...
Infected lung epithelial cells News article 10 Nov 2021 Using live imaging microscopy at LSTM to film COVID-19 infecting cells LSTM researcher, Dr Aitor Casas-Sanchez, has filmed SARS-CoV-2 (see below for a clip), the virus which causes COVID-19, whilst it infects human lung...
Tomasz Kostrzewski CN Bio, Shaun Pennington LSTM, Becky Jones-Phillips iiCON, Giancarlo Biagini LSTM News article 9 Nov 2021 iiCON and CN Bio announce COVID-19 research collaboration The Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), a global collaborative infectious disease R&D programme led by LSTM, has entered into a research...
News article 8 Nov 2021 Sustainability at LSTM. #COP26 #TogetherForOurPlanet The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow under the UK presidency highlights the urgent need to address the climate emergency. Given LSTM’s...
News article 2 Nov 2021 Dr. Webster Mavhu awarded NIHR-Wellcome Trust Global Health Partnership International Intermediate Fellowship. LSTM’s Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social science, Dr. Webster Mavhu has been awarded a five-year NIHR-Wellcome Trust Global Health...
News article 2 Nov 2021 LSTM recognised in the 2021 ‘Movers and Shakers’ BioBusiness list LSTM’s Dr Emily Adams, Reader in Infectious Diseases, and Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, Dr Fiona Marston OBE, have been named as ‘...
News article 1 Nov 2021 LSTM researchers explore the prevalence of COPD and lung decline in Malawian adults in a 5-year study LSTM’s PhD student Martin Njoroge has recently published in The Lancet’s EClinical Medicine exploring the prevalence of Chronic...
Young Female Doctor discussing a medical report with a senior female patient News article 28 Oct 2021 Vulnerable households and palliative care for advanced cancer in Malawi Households without access to appropriate care face the additional burden of increasing poverty when a family member is diagnosed with an advanced...
CGI image of Pembroke House News article 27 Oct 2021 Plans revealed for new multi-million infection innovation and training centre Plans have been revealed for a new multi-million-pound centre in the Liverpool City Region that will develop the next generation of global health...
LSTM’s Prof Barry Munslow News article 25 Oct 2021 LSTM’s Prof Barry Munslow donates his humanitarian library to LSTM on his retirement LSTM bids a fond farewell to Professor Barry Munslow, who worked as a consultant on the Humanitarian programmes of LSTM alongside Professor Tim O’...
Painted health advice against HIV illness at a wall on a side road between Lomé and Kpalimé near Assahoun in Togo, West Africa. News article 19 Oct 2021 Qualitative evidence: stopping research waste What is it like as a young woman facing a health worker who tells you that you are infected with HIV and need to take drugs for the rest of your life...
News article 14 Oct 2021 LSTM researchers collaborate in multi-country consensus statement to promote equitable authorship The journal Anaesthesia has published a consensus statement, which presents academic journals with a new and pragmatic approach to the problem of...
News article 8 Oct 2021 NIMble innovation—a networked model for public antibiotic trials LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts is a contributing author to an article published in the journal The Lancet Microbe calling for a dedicated antibiotic trials...
Professor Janet Hemingway and Professor Charles Wondji News article 7 Oct 2021 Professor Janet Hemingway announced as RSTMH President LSTM’s former Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, has become the President of the Royal Society of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (RSTMH), delivering...
News article 7 Oct 2021 AGILE Covid-19 drug testing platform opens new trial in South Africa A new international trial to assess whether high doses of the antiparasitic drug nitazoxanide could help treat patients with COVID-19 has begun in...
Dr Ana Cubas Atienzar, Adrian Walsh, Dr Lisa Baldwin News article 4 Oct 2021 iiCON supports Liverpool SME developing ‘game-changing’ lateral flow test technology Nano Biosols, an SME based at Liverpool Science Park, has filed a patent for novel technology it has developed to enhance the sensitivity of lateral...
News article 29 Sep 2021 Treating everyone for malaria: does it eliminate the disease? Some policy experts recommend giving antimalarial drugs to everyone living in a malarious area at the same time to accelerate elimination of the...
iiCON Director Professor Janet Hemingway News article 27 Sep 2021 iiCON creates 176 jobs and leverages over £150 million investment in first year Since launching in September 2020, the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON) has established itself as a leading global centre for infectious...
News article 24 Sep 2021 Professor Daniela Ferreira at Global Citizen Live 2021
Photo: Dr Peter McPherson News article 23 Sep 2021 PROSPECT study results: The role of computer aided chest X-ray screening technology for diagnosing TB and HIV in low resource settings LSTM’s Dr Peter MacPherson, working with colleagues at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust (MLW) Clinical Research programme and the London School of...
News article 17 Sep 2021 International Snakebite Awareness Day 2021
News article 17 Sep 2021 International Snakebite Awareness Day 2021
News article 17 Sep 2021 International Snakebite Awareness Day 2021
News article 14 Sep 2021 Social and health factors associated with unfavourable treatment outcome in adolescents and young adults with tuberculosis in Brazil: a national retrospective cohort study LSTM’s Dr Tom Wingfield has been jointly leading a retrospective cohort study in Brazil looking at the social and health factors that are associated...
News article 12 Sep 2021 Liverpool announces end-to-end pandemic institute Liverpool is to headquarter the Pandemic Institute, committed to helping the world prevent, prepare, and respond more effectively to pandemics.
News article 9 Sep 2021 Integrated care shows substantially less health costs for people with HIV, diabetes and hypertension Research conducted through an equitable partnership of LSTM and its partners (the RESPOND-Africa consortium), which includes NIMR in Tanzania and MRC...

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