Three students from LSTM have been invited to present an outline of their current area of research to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPGM) during their upcoming meeting in Parliament on 2nd September.
The students have been selected as three of the six winners of an open competition launched earlier in the year. The competition was open to all students working on research projects related to malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and they were invited to submit an outline of their area of research in the field.
The three students selected from LSTM are all working on their PhDs and will present to the group, chaired by Rt. Hon. Jeremy Lefroy MP.
Kayla Barnes and Lucas Cunningham are both from LSTM’s Department of Vector Biology. Their presentations are entitled Insecticide Resistance: A Threat to Disease Control, and The little Pigs and the Big Bad Trypanosome: An investigation into the presence of a parasite (T. brucei gambiense) in domestic pigs from a North Ugandan Sleeping Sickness focus, respectively.
PhD student Waleed Alsalem, studying in the Department of Parasitology, will deliver a presentation entitled A Public Health approach to Leishmaniasis Control, about the work he has been carrying out in Saudi Arabia and a number of high level officials from the Saudi Arabian embassy in London have accepted his invitation to attend the meeting.
Dean of Biological Sciences at LSTM, Professor Alister Craig, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for the students to present their research to a well informed and interested audience. It is of great credit to them, their supervisors and their departments that of the six winners of the competition, three are studying at here at LSTM."