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News article 28 Mar 2014 Science Without Borders In April 2014, senior post-doctoral researcher, Dr Daniela Ferreira will be traveling to Brazil to visit the top universities of the State...
News article 27 Mar 2014 Seminar Series Review: Time, love and disease: Sensory ecology and molecular basis of insect mechanosensation LSTM Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Joerg T Albert, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience, at University College London’s Ear...
News article 27 Mar 2014 Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group plays host to visiting fellows The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, based at LSTM, has been playing host to two visiting fellows from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research...
News article 26 Mar 2014 CMNH staff visit Sierra Leone projects Two Liverpool-based members of staff from LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) have just got back from a visit to Sierra...
News article 21 Mar 2014 Researchers at LSTM unlock the secret of multiple insecticide resistance in mosquitoes Researchers at LSTM have discovered how unprecedented multiple and extreme-level resistance is generated in mosquitoes found in the rice fields of...
News article 20 Mar 2014 GHIT grant for new Anti-Wolbachia drug discovery The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) together with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry (University of Liverpool (UoL)) and Japanese...
News article 19 Mar 2014 Postcard from Bungoma, Kenya Tessa Snelgar, a midwife from Oxford recently returned from Bungoma where she went to facilitate an Emergency Obstetric Care and Newborn Care (EOC...
News article 17 Mar 2014 Dr Daniela Ferreira - Developing a protein-based vaccine: What we can learn from experimental human carriage? Last week, Senior Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Daniela Ferreira, visited Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen in the Netherlands, to...
News article 14 Mar 2014 LSTM opens joint drug discovery lab in China A group of senior researchers, led by LSTM’s Deputy Director, Professor Steve Ward, is in China this week as part of the Liverpool-Guangdong...
News article 13 Mar 2014 Seminar Series report. All in good time : Biochemistry and evolution of insect P450 enzymes LSTM Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr. René Feyereisen, Director of Research at the Institut National de la...
News article 13 Mar 2014 LSTM delegation attends the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases The 9th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases was held March 9-13, 2014 in Hyderabad, India. The symposium, held...
News article 10 Mar 2014 CMNH study looks at reasons for preterm birth in Malawi There is no evidence that HIV is a factor in preterm birth in Africa according research carried out by LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health...
News article 10 Mar 2014 2000 under 5's recruited to the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has reached a significant milestone with over 2000 children under 5 recruited to the study. It is now the...
News article 7 Mar 2014 Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium: Apply now for awards to expand and accelerate product development – deadline 4 April 2014 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept Award of £500,000 which can be allocated to individual projects...
News article 7 Mar 2014 LSTM celebrates International Women’s Day To mark International Women’s Day this weekend and to draw attention to ongoing challenges faced by women all over the world, researchers from LSTM...
News article 4 Mar 2014 LSTM Podcast launch episode LSTM research staff and students have launched a monthly podcast highlighting some of the work being carried out at LSTM. In this first edition PhD...
News article 3 Mar 2014 International students study for Diploma in Reproductive Health LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) is currently training 25 students on their Diploma in Reproductive Health in...
News article 27 Feb 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Behavioural Genetics of Assortative Mating in Anopheles gambiae LSTM’s latest seminar examined the genetic basis of assortative mating behaviour in Anopheles gambiae, presented by Dr Frederic Tripet,...
News article 25 Feb 2014 Researchers at LSTM crack the genetic secret of mosquito resistance to DDT and bed net insecticides Researchers from LSTM have found that a single genetic mutation causes resistance to DDT and pyrethroids (an insecticide class used in mosquito nets...
News article 21 Feb 2014 CMNH training for 2014 gets underway Training has got underway at the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) this year with two courses being run this February.
News article 17 Feb 2014 Royal College of Defence Studies visit to LSTM Last week LSTM played host to 17 delegates from the Royal College of Defence Studies, which forms part of the UK Defence Academy in London. The...
News article 14 Feb 2014 Seminar Series: Plasmodium: a treasure chest of molecular targets to chase LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Ilaria Russo, an honorary research fellow at LSTM, who has recently joined the...
News article 14 Feb 2014 LSTM Researcher wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize LSTM’s Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Dr Hanafy M. Ismail, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Book Poster Prize at the New Perspectives...
News article 13 Feb 2014 MRC funds BREATHE Africa Partnership to improve the research into the health effects of Household Air Pollution The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced £580,000 of funding to facilitate collaboration between established trial sites and to increase...
News article 11 Feb 2014 Helping health professionals to fight yellow fever LSTM is today hosting a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC) course to provide training to health professionals who are mostly new to yellow fever...
News article 6 Feb 2014 LSTM Seminar Series: Mitochondrial metabolism of the Apicomplexa LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Dr James MacRae, Head of Metabolomics at the National Institute for Medical...
News article 5 Feb 2014 New Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene gets underway This week 88 doctors from as far afield as Australia, China, Pakistan, USA and Europe, join us for the three month Diploma in Tropical Medicine and...
News article 4 Feb 2014 LSTM’s Capacity Research Unit meets with APPG Global Health on volunteer programmes in the NHS Members of LSTM’s Capacity Research Unit (CRU) met with Dr Jonty Roland, Policy Director at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health...
News article 31 Jan 2014 MSc Poster Day Masters in ‘Biology and Control of Parasites & Disease Vectors’ student Andrew Blanshard, has won ‘Best Poster’ at the MSc poster day on...
News article 30 Jan 2014 CMNH to evaluate Health Transition Fund in Zimbabwe This February, the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) will begin fieldwork in Zimbabwe which will contribute to the Mid-Term Report in the...
News article 30 Jan 2014 Liverpool school wins “Doctor for the Day" LSTM’s Dr Nick Beeching dropped into Carleton House Preparatory School today after the school won a competition run by the Royal Liverpool...
News article 29 Jan 2014 Microbial Cytochromes P450: drug targeting in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and biotechnological applications LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a presentation by Professor Andrew Munro based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology...
News article 29 Jan 2014 CAPS study partner shortlisted for green award A key partner in the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has been shortlisted for a prestigious environmental award in the UK.
News article 27 Jan 2014 LSTM’s Leverhulme Lecture 2014 to be delivered by World Bank director Dr Tim Evans Dr Tim Evans, Director Health, Nutrition and Population of the World Bank, will deliver the LSTM Leverhulme Lecture 2014. 
News article 23 Jan 2014 ReBUILD expands its research portfolio for 2014 During the last 12 months, five affiliates of ReBUILD, a research consortium funded by DFID to deliver new knowledge to inform the development of pro...
News article 23 Jan 2014 Topical probiotics – new approaches to the maintenance and repair of the skin barrier LSTM’s seminar series continued yesterday with a presentation by Dr Catherine O’Neill, senior lecturer within the Dermatology group of the University...
News article 22 Jan 2014 Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults A second systematic review of a diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has confirmed the accuracy of...
News article 21 Jan 2014 Cochrane review of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria ‘Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine is more effective than artemether-lumefantrine, and has fewer side effects than artesunate-mefloquine’ concludes a...
News article 20 Jan 2014 The Manson Christmas Lecture - Now online The Manson Christmas Lecture, delivered by Emeritus Professor and Senior Professional Fellow, David Molyneux at the Royal Society of Tropical...
News article 15 Jan 2014 Masterclass HIV in Resource Limited Settings A new short course is due to start at LSTM next week entitled “Masterclass HIV in Resource Limited Settings”. The course will run for two weeks and...

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