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News article 10 Aug 2023 New UK partnership and research fund aims to tackle infectious diseases Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and self-funded charitable medical research organisation, LifeArc, are partnering to launch a new...
News article 31 Jul 2023 Goodbye and good luck to the 2023 BSc Tropical Disease Biology Graduates Last month a rare sunny day saw the graduation from University of Liverpool of the Tropical Disease Biology BSc students, who were taught by LSTM...
News article 27 Jul 2023 Liverpool to host top UK pandemic scientists this September Some of the UK’s top pandemic scientists will gather this September for a two-day meeting hosted by The Pandemic Institute. The UK Pandemic Sciences...
News article 26 Jul 2023 Study finds that spraying just 12% of a room with insecticide kills 85% of mosquitoes present A collaboration between scientists in Liverpool and Brazil has found that targeting the very bottom of a room’s walls with insecticide will kill most...
News article 26 Jul 2023 Plasmapheresis to remove amyloid fibrin(ogen) particles for treating the post-COVID-19 condition Exhaustion, brain fog, and headaches are common in post-COVID-19 condition, sometimes called “long covid”. Social media and newspapers report the...
News article 24 Jul 2023 LSTM has been shortlisted in two categories for Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Innovations in Business awards 2023 Shortlisted for Business of the Year (over 30 employees), LSTM has also been shortlisted for the Community Impact Award for the Vaccine Equity...
News article 21 Jul 2023 Recognising Black leaders: Professor Charles Wondji Professor Charles Wondji closes our week of profiles to mark Black Leaders Awareness Day. He is Professor of Genetics and Vector Biology at LSTM and...
News article 20 Jul 2023 Recognising Black leaders: Emma Orefuwa It’s day four of our week marking Black Leaders Awareness Day, and today we are meeting Emma Orefuwa, the co-founder of the Pan-African Mosquito...
News article 19 Jul 2023 Search for effective CCHF Treatments: first patient dosed in novel clinical trial platform in Turkiye July 18th 2023 –Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Dr. Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital in Ankara...
News article 19 Jul 2023 Recognising Black leaders: Professor Henry Mwandumba The third person this week to help us mark Black Leaders Awareness Day is Professor Henry Mwandumba. Professor Mwandumba is Director of the...
News article 18 Jul 2023 Recognising Black leaders: Dr Ebere Okereke This week, to mark Black Leaders Awareness Day on 18th July, we are recognising the impact of the world’s most celebrated Black leaders. LSTM is...
News article 18 Jul 2023 Recognising Black leaders: Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah July 18th is Black Leaders Awareness Day, a day which aimsto inform and educate people from all walks of life about the cultural impact of the world’...
News article 17 Jul 2023 Liverpool Chamber Members Explore LSTM's Groundbreaking Work at Charity Partnership Launch Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) hosted a charity partnership event that brought together immersive reality, captivating science, and...
News article 7 Jul 2023 Prevalence of multimorbidity and chronic health conditions among adult patients in sub-Saharan Africa – a new review A new study, which includes authors at LSTM, has shown that multimorbidity remains poorly described, despite high burdens of individual chronic...
Two display cases containing archives relating to Alwen Evans News article 6 Jul 2023 LSTM’s Alwen Evans at the World Museum The story of Dr Alwen Evans, LSTM’s first female lecturer, has been told in two display cases within the atrium of Liverpool’s World Museum.
Headshot of Professor Alain Kohl News article 5 Jul 2023 Welcoming Professor Alain Kohl Professor Kohl is joining LSTM’s Departments of Vector Biology and Tropical Disease Biology as Professor in Virology. This is a strategic appointment...
Headshot of Dr. Daire Cantillon and Zachary Stavrou-Dowd News article 3 Jul 2023 LSTM Announces Recipients of Inaugural Paul Bedingfield Prize in Global Health Research Dr. Daire Cantillon and Zachary Stavrou-Dowd, both early career researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, have been named as the...
Headshot of Professor Jonathan Ball News article 3 Jul 2023 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to welcome new Deputy Director LSTM is delighted to welcome Professor Jonathan Ball who will join us as Deputy Director in the new academic year.
Headshot of Professor Brian Maegraith News article 30 Jun 2023 Flashback Friday – Brian Maegraith This month has seen the Researching FEPOW History Conference at LSTM; an arena for those interested in researching and remembering those servicemen...
News article 29 Jun 2023 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine named Liverpool Chamber of Commerce's Charity of the Year for 2023 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), a leading institution in global health research and education since its establishment in 1898, is...
News article 22 Jun 2023 LSTM took elements of The National Lottery Heritage-Funded Tropical Medicine Time Machine to Africa Oye The weekend saw Africa Oyé, the UK’s largest annual free celebration of African music and culture, take place in Sefton Park in Liverpool.
News article 22 Jun 2023 June’s Hero of Health: Jonathan Whittall June each year sees World Refugee Day and week - an oppurtunity to honour people who have been forced to flee their homes. One person for...
News article 9 Jun 2023 LSTM Reflects on Volunteers’ Week Volunteers’ Week is an annual event which sees charities, voluntary groups, social organisations, and workplaces come together to recognise and...
Dion Bell treating FEPOW veterans with Dr Gill observing News article 9 Jun 2023 Flashback Friday – Dr Dion Bell Ahead of this weekend’s FEPOW (Far Eastern Prisoners of War) conference at LSTM, we want to introduce you to one of the most important people in the...
News article 6 Jun 2023 LSTM and Everton in the Community launch Living Liverpool LSTM is delighted to announce that Living Liverpool, a unique collaboration with Everton in the Community to celebrate LSTM’s 125th anniversary, has...
News article 31 May 2023 Going abroad? Pop to the Trop Shop first Staff at Liverpool’s Well Travelled Clinic are encouraging those travelling to exotic locations this summer to come along for travel health advice...
Laboratory interior with posters and a laboratory bench with test tubes News article 26 May 2023 A home in the tropics The year is 1905 and LSTM scientists, Wolferstan Thomas and Anton Breinl, have been sent to the Amazon Basin to research yellow fever – an infection...
News article 23 May 2023 ‘Science Bites with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’ at Pint of Science Liverpool Liverpool hosted Pint of Science, an annual three-day festival that brings engaging science and latest research findings to pubs and bars across the...
News article 22 May 2023 A quick guide for funders on effective research capacity strengthening The Centre for Capacity Research at LSTM, in partnership with WHO ESSENCE, have developed a quick guide for funders on effective research capacity...
A patient in Bangladesh with Lymphodema - a symptom of LF News article 19 May 2023 Bangladesh eliminates lymphatic filariasis (LF) The World Health Organization (WHO), has declared that Bangladesh has eliminated lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem with the help...
Group of researchers from DRUM consortium undertake fieldwork in Malawi News article 18 May 2023 Investigating One Health risks for human colonisation with extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Malawian households A team of international researchers from the LSTM-led DRUM Consortium working in Southern Malawi, have completed a study looking at antimicrobial...
Professor Hemingway. Photo: Yasmin Balai News article 17 May 2023 Hemingway Award 2023 The Hemingway Award – a joint award between RSTMH and LSTM – recognises Professor Janet Hemingway’s achievements in delivering and encouraging...
News article 16 May 2023 LSTM’s Hero for May: Kamaluddin Khan To mark Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, this month’s Hero of Health is a psychiatrist who not only treated his former prisoner of war...
CWUR LOGO News article 15 May 2023 LSTM celebrates university ranking success Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is celebrating its latest university ranking success, having been ranked in the top 5.7% of universities in the...
News article 12 May 2023 International Nurses Day 2023
Kira, Oksana, Misha, Sasha and Yaroslav in Ukraine, in Autumn 2021 prior to the conflict starting in February 2022. News article 10 May 2023 Meet Ukrainian Mum of two, Oksana Havryliak, a Finance staff member at LSTM Meet Ukrainian Mum of two, Oksana Havryliak, a Finance staff member at LSTM - she arrived in the UK with son Yaroslav, now 15, and daughter Kira, now...
News article 5 May 2023 International Day of the Midwife 2023
News article 28 Apr 2023 Where the female tsetse fly gives birth Fascinating research into how a female tsetse fly knows where to find the best birthing sites has been officially published by Philosophical...
News article 26 Apr 2023 Immunisation week April sees Immunisation Week, and it is easy to underestimate the importance that vaccines play in routine healthcare and the fight against...
News article 25 Apr 2023 World Malaria Day 2023

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