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News article 22 Jul 2019 LSTM returns to the Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank LSTM attended this year’s Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank, attracting huge audiences for the three-day festival, with contributions from Vector...
Plasmodium falciparum late-stage gametocyte, one of the parasite stages targeted by primaquine News article 19 Jul 2019 Understanding the mode of action of the antimalarial primaquine: new insights into a 70 year old puzzle Researchers at LSTM have taken significant steps in understanding the way that the anti-malarial drug primaquine (PQ) works, which they hope will...
News article 18 Jul 2019 LSTM’s Professor Henry Mwandumba receives the 2019 Royal Society Africa Prize LSTM’s newly promoted Professor Henry Mwandumba has been honoured by The Royal Society, being named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Society...
News article 17 Jul 2019 LSTM systematic review: menstrual cups safe, cost effective and enable waste saving Researchers at LSTM have carried out the first scientific review about menstrual cups and found them to be safe and potentially as effective as other...
News article 10 Jul 2019 HiVE - LSTM’s pioneering virtual incubator seeks mentors LSTM seeks additional mentors to join the pilot of its Health Innovation in a Virtual Environment (HiVE) incubation programme. 
News article 9 Jul 2019 LSTM’s new online course: The Professional Diploma in Travel Health The next LSTM/NaTHNaC online Professional Diploma in Travel Health starts on 26 September 2019. This exciting course, which first started in May 2019...
News article 5 Jul 2019 Researchers investigate the role of the nasal ecosystem and viral infection on acquisition of a bacterium that causes pneumonia LSTM researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, have looked at the...
News article 3 Jul 2019 LSTM at the Big Bang festival for the third year running! A team from LSTM’s LITE led by Zachary Stavrou-Dowd took part in the Big Bang North West on the 2nd of July at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool.
News article 3 Jul 2019 £300k awarded for new translational research projects by CEIDR The Liverpool Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research (CEIDR) has awarded £300,000 to support seven new collaborative translational...
News article 27 Jun 2019 MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2018-19 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept Award 2018-19 of £540,000, which can be allocated to individual...
News article 26 Jun 2019 New scholarship opportunities for future leaders in Global Health from Ghana and Nigeria LSTM is delighted to offer new scholarship opportunities to future leaders in global health from Ghana and Nigeria applying for a postgraduate...
News article 25 Jun 2019 CMNH presents at the RCOG World Congress From: CMNH The 2019 World Congress of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) took place in London from 17 – 19th June 2019. The programme...
Image credit: CARTAfrica News article 25 Jun 2019 Measuring Impact: Improving evaluations of research capacity strengthening programmes The Centre for Capacity Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in partnership with the African Population and Health Research Centre...
News article 25 Jun 2019 RSTMH and LSTM open nominations for the Hemingway Award 2019 Fellows and members of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and students, alumni or staff members of the Liverpool School of...
News article 25 Jun 2019 LSTM PhD student, Mr Edwin Panford-Quainoo, receives Antimicrobial Stewardship fellowship Edwin Panford-Quainoo has recently been accepted onto a Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Global Health Fellowship. 
A variety of different bacteria and fungi isolated as part of LSTM's Swab and Send project News article 24 Jun 2019 £3.54m boost for Liverpool based Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) research Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and The University of Liverpool (UoL) have been awarded £3.54m for a research project that aims to...
News article 20 Jun 2019 In Memoriam: Carmel Bates Carmel Bates was a much loved Departmental Secretary in LSTM's Vector Biology Department who sadly passed away on 28th May 2019.
News article 20 Jun 2019 LSTM returns to Bluedot Festival For the third year in a row LSTM will be present at the Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK. The popular festival will...
Photo credit: Anna Trelfa News article 19 Jun 2019 Global burden of snakebite discussed in UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and NTDs LSTM’s Professor Robert Harrison has co-ordinated a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (...
News article 13 Jun 2019 Start of 'High consequence infection disease from bench to outbreak response' conference LSTM is hosting the NIHR funded Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections’ conference on Ebola and other high consequence...
News article 10 Jun 2019 LSTM co-signs open letter calling for fairer UK visa system LSTM Director, Professor David Lalloo, is a signatory on a letter calling for a fair and equitable visa system that protects collaborations needed to...
News article 10 Jun 2019 Xpert Ultra test for diagnosing TB now included in Cochrane Review Tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide. Globally in 2017, of the...
News article 6 Jun 2019 LSTM collaborative Photovoice exhibition at the Fabric District Festival 2019 This weekend sees a celebration of LSTM’s local area at the Fabric District Arts Festival, with a number of art and fashion events – including LSTM’s...
News article 6 Jun 2019 Equality in Science Symposium 2019 This week the Equality in Science symposium, organised by a committee of PhD students and early career researchers, was hosted at LSTM . The...
News article 6 Jun 2019 New systematic review shows that early warning systems are effective in improving outcomes for pregnant women From: CMNH Early Warning Systems (EWS) are used in medicine as a way of identifying a potential problem ahead of time. This enables healthcare providers to make...
News article 6 Jun 2019 Latest study from LSTM: Introducing risk inequality metrics in tuberculosis policy development Researchers led by LSTM’s Dr. Gabriela Gomes have demonstrated, in a paper published today in the journal Nature...
News article 3 Jun 2019 Moving on from paper: Using tablets to collect electronic data in low resource settings From: CMNH Collecting health data in low- and middle-income countries is largely conducted using paper-based forms. In fact, since 2006, researchers from the...
News article 3 Jun 2019 Drones trialled to assist in TB diagnosis in Nepal LSTM and partners are launching a new project trialling the use of drones to combat tuberculosis in some of Nepal’s most rural and inaccessible areas.
News article 28 May 2019 LSTM and World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019 On the occasion of World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019, it is a good opportunity to highlight LSTM’s growing contribution to research and global action...
News article 28 May 2019 LSTM’s Club Tropicana at the Bollington Festival LSTM staff and students took Club Tropicana to the Bollington Festival on the 26th May in the town of Bollington near Macclesfield, Northwest England.
News article 24 May 2019 WHO launches strategy on snakebite envenoming - with LSTM input LSTM Professor Robert Harrison, Head of LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions (CSRI) is in Geneva, Switzerland, for the official...
News article 23 May 2019 'Journey to the Tropics' at Pint of Science Liverpool For the third year running Liverpool hosted Pint of Science, an annual three-day festival that brings engaging science and latest research findings...
News article 16 May 2019 IAVI and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to Partner in Scientific Consortium for New Snakebite Therapies Partners in five countries will discover and develop monoclonal antibodies to treat critical illness from snake venom, which harms nearly 3 million...
News article 16 May 2019 LSTM: “Wellcome programme to support snakebite treatment research a watershed moment” LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions (CSRI) views the announcement of a new £80 million programme of Wellcome Trust funding to...
Dr Khumbo Kalua inspecting atypical eggs News article 8 May 2019 Detection of unusual hybrid schistosomes in Malawi LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard is senior author on a new paper in which researchers from the UK and Malawi have described the unusual occurrence...
News article 8 May 2019 LSTM’s researchers at Pint of Science on the 22nd May at Oh Me Oh My. LSTM’s Tom Wingfield, Terry Kana and Joanna Furnival-Adams will be speaking at Liverpool’s Pint of Science on the 22nd May at Oh Me Oh My (West...
News article 3 May 2019 International Day of the Midwife
News article 2 May 2019 Equality in Science Symposium Tickets are selling fast for the Equality in Science (EiS) symposium, being hosted at LSTM on Tuesday 4th June. Organised by a group of PhD students...
News article 1 May 2019 Cochrane Review: MVA85A vaccine to enhance BCG for preventing tuberculosis Tuberculosis has been killing people for centuries and the prospect of a vaccine to stop this has eluded scientists for years. Initial funding,...
News article 25 Apr 2019 LSTM researchers runners up in Wellcome Data Re-use Prize: Malaria Three LSTM researchers (two of them PhD students) have taken second place in the Wellcome Data Re-use Prize : Malaria for reusing data from the...

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