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News article 28 Apr 2015 Seminar Series Report: Development of Adhiron artificial binding proteins LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Professor Michael McPherson, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of...
News article 24 Apr 2015 World Malaria Day 2015 Saturday 25th April is World Malaria Day and it provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress that is being made at LSTM to fight the...
News article 23 Apr 2015 Laing O’Rourke donation supports malaria research at LSTM Leading international engineering enterprise, Laing O’Rourke, have pledged £1,000 for the purchase of an imaging system to help LSTM carry out their...
News article 20 Apr 2015 LSTM's Centre for Maternal & Newborn Health are cycling to Sierra Leone! LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) has begun their mammoth 4,247 mile cycling challenge to raise funds for urgently needed medical...
News article 17 Apr 2015 British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference This week has seen approximately 400 parasitologists gather at the British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference, which...
News article 16 Apr 2015 The 2015 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization, (WHO), delivered the prestigious LSTM Leverhulme Lecture at the...
News article 15 Apr 2015 Addressing the Chronic pandemic of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), the first decade and onwards LSTM launched its extended Neglected Tropical Diseases programme today at an event entitled: “Addressing the Chronic pandemic of Neglected Tropical...
News article 9 Apr 2015 Postcard from Guinea “Today’s discharge of patients shows that Ebola is not always fatal. Good, early supportive care such as hydration, nutrition and appropriate...
News article 1 Apr 2015 LSTM Graduate Mohammed Yassin becomes Senior TB Advisor for the Global Fund LSTM graduate and former research fellow Mohammed Yassin is Senior TB Advisor for the Global Fund, a position fitting with his long term goal of...
News article 30 Mar 2015 Seminar Series Report: Rising health needs, catastrophic expenditure and poverty challenges and solutions for universal health coverage in Bangladesh. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Jahangir AM Khan, a senior lecturer in health economics at LSTM and an...
News article 26 Mar 2015 Special Ebola seminar during DTM&H course LSTM’s Dr Tim O’Dempsey made a reappearance at LSTM this week speaking at a seminar about viral haemorrhagic fevers with an emphasis on Ebola. The...
News article 25 Mar 2015 Special Ebola seminar during DTM&H course LSTM’s Dr Tim O’Dempsey made a reappearance at LSTM this week speaking at a seminar about viral haemorrhagic fevers with an emphasis on Ebola.
News article 24 Mar 2015 World TB Day 2015 Tuesday 24 March is World TB Day, organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and dedicated to raising awareness and generating action to combat...
News article 23 Mar 2015 World TB Day World TB Day, 24 March 2009, is a day to celebrate the lives of the women, men and children affected by TB, and to acknowledge the work of doctors,...
News article 18 Mar 2015 25th Anniversary of the Ken Newell Memorial Bursary Fund 18 March 2015 marks 25 years since the death of Kenneth Wyatt Newell, Middlemass Hunt Professor of Tropical Community Health and former Head of the...
News article 17 Mar 2015 CMNH skills lab inauguration in India India’s Health Minister, J.P. Nadda, has officially opened the Skills Lab, a collaboration with LSTM, at the National Institute of Health and Family...
News article 16 Mar 2015 Meeting review of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Confidence in Concept (CiC) Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium Today saw the meeting of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Confidence in Concept (CiC) Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium, which is a...
News article 13 Mar 2015 Seminar Series Report. Salt-intake and salt-reduction initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a talk by Dr Oyinlola Oyebode, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her talk, entitled:...
News article 12 Mar 2015 The Disease Data Management System video LSTM, together with its partners in the development of The Disease Data Management System, the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) and...
News article 12 Mar 2015 RCOG award for CMNH's Dr Mary McCauley Dr Mary McCauley of the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, has recently been presented a Global Health Globe from the Royal College of...
News article 12 Mar 2015 The COUNTDOWN consortium holds official launch meeting at LSTM The COUNTDOWN research consortium, which is calling time on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) has just held its official launch meeting....
News article 11 Mar 2015 Cochrane Review of effectiveness of point of care diagnostics for schistosomiasis Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to assess how well point of care...
News article 10 Mar 2015 UN Secretary General Appoints LSTM Trustee to key role LSTM Trustee, Stephen O’Brien MP has been appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the...
News article 10 Mar 2015 Seminar Series Report. Food for Thought: Childhood nutrition in low-income countries LSTM’s Seminar Series continued last week with a presentation entitled: Food for Thought: Childhood nutrition in low-income countries. It was...
News article 6 Mar 2015 MLW launches Samala Moyo exhibition project Last week the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) launched its exhibition project called ‘Samala Moyo’ which...
News article 6 Mar 2015 LSTM celebrates International Women’s Day International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on Sunday 8thMarch and this year the theme is “Make it Happen” to ensure effective action for...
News article 6 Mar 2015 LSTM and University of Nottingham research into hospital safety and efficiency UK hospitals are under great clinical pressure from the increasing number and complexity of admissions. As resources are limited, there is a pressing...
News article 5 Mar 2015 LSTM joins more than 90 partners in calling on the G7 to tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases LSTM director, Professor Janet Hemingway, as well as Professors David Molyneux and Moses Bockarie have co-signed an Open Letter to the G7...
News article 4 Mar 2015 New videos released demonstrating the benefits of LQAS surveys Researchers from LSTM have produced a suite of videos explaining the benefits of using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) surveys in...
News article 4 Mar 2015 Research at LSTM leads to quick and inexpensive tests for indoor residual spraying Quality assurance for indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaigns has been a major challenge for vector control programmes in India.
News article 27 Feb 2015 T-REC holds final meeting in South Africa International blood transfusion consortium T-REC has been holding its final meeting and workshop in South Africa this week.
News article 27 Feb 2015 T-REC holds final meeting in South Africa International blood transfusion consortium T-REC has been holding its final meeting and workshop in South Africa this week.
News article 24 Feb 2015 All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and NTD Launch LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, has been among experts asked to comment at the launch of the2015 Neglected Tropical Diseases Report for...
News article 24 Feb 2015 CMNH shortlisted for a BMJ award The Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health’s Emergency (Essential) Obstetric Training has been shortlisted in the Women’s Health Category of the 2015...
News article 20 Feb 2015 LSTM students take awards at the Royal Entomological Society's postgraduate forum LSTM PhD student Josie Parker was awarded the student-voted best talk at 2015’s Royal Entomological Society’s Post Graduate Forum, held this week at...
News article 19 Feb 2015 LSTM Director invited to give remarks on WHO’s third annual report on NTDs LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, is part of a panel of experts that have been invited to comment on the World Health Organization’s (WHO)...
News article 19 Feb 2015 Seminar series report: Evidence Synthesis for Global Health LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from LSTM’s Professor Paul Garner, Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious...
News article 18 Feb 2015 A glowing report for CMNH from Women and Children First. The Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health has recently completed the final evaluation for the Comic Relief funded project ‘Improving the health...
News article 13 Feb 2015 LSTM contributes to the drive for research impact LSTM has been actively engaged in this week’s #RESUPMEETUP in Nairobi, Kenya. The aim of the meeting was to bring people together working on research...
News article 13 Feb 2015 Seminar Series Report: Scaling up the identification of gene functions in Plasmodium LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Oliver Billker and Dr Julian Rayner of the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute. Their...

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