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LSTM's hero for February: Alwen Evans
LSTM's hero for February: Alwen Evans
Alwen Myfanwy Evans was LSTM’s first female lecturer and a local doctor who braved African swamps to learn about the relationship between mosquitos...
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Children using bed nets with new compound less likely to have malaria parasites
Children using bed nets with new compound less likely to have malaria parasites
With insecticide resistance eroding the life-saving power of bed nets—a major malaria-fighting tool—researchers reported today that in a clinical...
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Understanding the mode of action of the antimalarial primaquine: new insights into a 70 year old puzzle
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...
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MLW Programme partner in first malaria vaccine roll out in Malawi
MLW Programme partner in first malaria vaccine roll out in Malawi
The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome (MLW) Clinical Research Programme, of which LSTM is a partner, is proud to be taking part in the pilot scheme for the...
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LSTM receives grant to accelerate evaluation of next generation malaria control tools
LSTM receives grant to accelerate evaluation of next generation malaria control tools
LSTM has been awarded a new US$3.9m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the ESSENTIALS project. This initiative aims to speed up...
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LSTM Seminar: Professor Jake Baum on "Lights, Camera, Action! Antimalarial drug discovery using a microscope"
LSTM Seminar: Professor Jake Baum on "Lights, Camera, Action! Antimalarial drug discovery using a microscope"
A seminar by Professor Jake Baum, Professor of Cell Biology and Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London
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LSTM at the Bluedot
LSTM at the Bluedot
LSTM has been out in force at this year’s Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank.
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LSTM expands its research in arbovirus biology and mosquito microbiomes with the appointment of Dr Grant Hughes.
LSTM expands its research in arbovirus biology and mosquito microbiomes with the appointment of Dr Grant Hughes.
LSTM is pleased to welcome Dr Grant Hughes as he joins the departments of Vector Biology and Parasitology as a Senior Lecturer in August this year.
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LSTM project uses drones to find mosquito breeding sites
LSTM project uses drones to find mosquito breeding sites
A new project using drones to find where mosquitoes are breeding to help efforts in malaria control has been launched in Malawi. The project is...
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Systematic experimental approaches to identifying and prioritising malaria targets
Systematic experimental approaches to identifying and prioritising malaria targets
A seminar by Dr Julian Rayner of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's Malaria Programme & Director of the Wellcome Genome Campus
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LSTM Seminar: 'Eave Tubes - From Innovation to Implementation'
LSTM Seminar: 'Eave Tubes - From Innovation to Implementation'
A seminar by Dr Jackie Cook, Assistant Professor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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PNAS: Rapid selection of a pyrethroid metabolic enzyme CYP9K1 by operational malaria control activities
PNAS: Rapid selection of a pyrethroid metabolic enzyme CYP9K1 by operational malaria control activities
LSTM researchers, with partners from several international institutions, have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide...
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LSTM study shows drug that kills mosquitoes could be used to fight malaria
LSTM study shows drug that kills mosquitoes could be used to fight malaria
Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have shown the large potential impact of a completely new type of antimalarial drug...
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Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator officially opened
Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator officially opened
LSTM’s latest estates addition, the Accelerator, has been officially opened by Professor Sir Christopher Evans OBE.
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The Landscape, Mosquitoes and People: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Controlling Malaria
The Landscape, Mosquitoes and People: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Controlling Malaria
Dr Rob McCann, Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands)
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Mini-primaquine does help stop people infecting mosquitoes with malaria, but impact on transmission in the community remains unclear
Mini-primaquine does help stop people infecting mosquitoes with malaria, but impact on transmission in the community remains unclear
A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria...
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Study shows persistent and increasing malaria parasites despite access to regular treatment in Uganda
Study shows persistent and increasing malaria parasites despite access to regular treatment in Uganda
A new study confirms further reasons for concern with the control of malaria in Uganda.
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Professor Janet Hemingway delivers RSTMH Christmas Lecture: Malaria gains leveling off, innovation needed
Professor Janet Hemingway delivers RSTMH Christmas Lecture: Malaria gains leveling off, innovation needed
LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway has delivered this year’s Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) Christmas Lecture.
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Obituary: Professor Mike Service
Obituary: Professor Mike Service
It is with great sadness that LSTM has learned of the death of Professor Mike Service, who has passed away aged 84.
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Malaria research agenda stresses the need for innovation and integration
Malaria research agenda stresses the need for innovation and integration
New research agenda for malaria elimination and global eradication 'malERA' stresses the need for innovation and integrated approaches.
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Evolution and ecology of malaria mosquito survival and other life-history traits
Evolution and ecology of malaria mosquito survival and other life-history traits
A seminar by Dr Francesco Baldini, University of Glasgow
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Largest genetic study of mosquitoes reveals spread of insecticide resistance across Africa
Largest genetic study of mosquitoes reveals spread of insecticide resistance across Africa
The largest ever genetic study of mosquitoes reveals the movement of insecticide resistance between different regions of Africa and finds several...
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LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, looks at the way forward for vector control – Science Magazine
LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, looks at the way forward for vector control – Science Magazine
LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, has written an insight piece for the journal Science about the way forward for vector control in...
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LSTM Seminar: 'Evolution and ecology of malaria mosquito survival and other life-history traits'
LSTM Seminar: 'Evolution and ecology of malaria mosquito survival and other life-history traits'
A seminar by Dr Francesco Baldini, University of Glasgow
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What genome editing can do for mosquitoes: from basic biology to gene drive to accelerated evolution
What genome editing can do for mosquitoes: from basic biology to gene drive to accelerated evolution
A seminar by Dr Tony Nolan, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
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LSTM Seminar: "What genome editing can do for mosquitoes: from basic biology to gene drive to accelerated evolution"
LSTM Seminar: "What genome editing can do for mosquitoes: from basic biology to gene drive to accelerated evolution"
A seminar by Dr Tony Nolan, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
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The battle for iron in anaemia, infection and immunity
The battle for iron in anaemia, infection and immunity
A seminar by Dr Hal Drakesmith, Associate Professor of Immunology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
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LSTM Seminar: 'The battle for iron in anaemia, infection and immunity'
LSTM Seminar: 'The battle for iron in anaemia, infection and immunity'
A seminar by Dr Hal Drakesmith, Associate Professor of Immunology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
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Geospatial Modelling of Malaria Vectors
Geospatial Modelling of Malaria Vectors
Dr Catherine Moyes, University of Oxford
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Listen to LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, talking about 'How to win the battle against malaria' on the FT’s podcast.
Listen to LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, talking about 'How to win the battle against malaria' on the FT’s podcast.
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LSTM Seminar: 'Geospatial Modelling of Malaria Vectors', Dr Catherine Moyes, University of Oxford
LSTM Seminar: 'Geospatial Modelling of Malaria Vectors', Dr Catherine Moyes, University of Oxford
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Dr Lee Haines on BBC Radio Merseyside Sci Fri
Dr Lee Haines on BBC Radio Merseyside Sci Fri
Last week Vector Biology’s Dr Lee Haines spoke on SciFri, an LSTM initiative, on BBC Radio Merseyside.
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Researchers at LSTM show resistance to one class of insecticide in Anopheles gambiae may result in susceptibility in other organophosphates.
Researchers at LSTM show resistance to one class of insecticide in Anopheles gambiae may result in susceptibility in other organophosphates.
Researchers from LSTM have shown that the mechanism by which the main vector of malaria in Africa, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, becomes resistant...
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LSTM awarded £6.4 million to strengthen capacity to control malaria and other vector borne diseases
LSTM awarded £6.4 million to strengthen capacity to control malaria and other vector borne diseases
Researchers at LSTM have been awarded £6.4 million from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) to strengthen the global capacity to control...
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LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine speaks at Bluedot Festival
LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine speaks at Bluedot Festival
Last weekend LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine gave at a talk at the Bluedot festival, an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep space...
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Dr S. Patrick Kachur CDC delivers LSTM’s 2017 Leverhulme Lecture
Dr S. Patrick Kachur CDC delivers LSTM’s 2017 Leverhulme Lecture
Dr S. Patrick Kachur, Chief of the Malaria Branch at the US Centres for Disease control and Prevention (CDC), delivered the prestigious LSTM...
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LSTM and partners develop molecule that could lead to first synthetic one-dose malaria treatment
LSTM and partners develop molecule that could lead to first synthetic one-dose malaria treatment
Researchers at LSTM, working in partnership with the University of Liverpool and other colleagues, have developed a molecule which has the potential...
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Research team finds no adverse risk to use of common antimalarials in first trimester of pregnancy
Research team finds no adverse risk to use of common antimalarials in first trimester of pregnancy
Malaria is more common and severe in pregnant women, increasing their risk of miscarriage and other adverse outcomes. The adverse consequences of...
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Expanding the vector control toolbox to enable malaria elimination - Why what and how
Expanding the vector control toolbox to enable malaria elimination - Why what and how
A trio of new analysis articles, led by LSTM’s Dr Gerry Killeen, have been published in British Medical Journal Global Health. The articles explain...
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Microbes to Mosquitoes workshop at Centre 63
Microbes to Mosquitoes workshop at Centre 63
4:30pm to 6:30pm for ages 8-12
6:45pm to 8:30pm for ages 13-10
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Insecticide-induced leg loss does not eliminate biting and reproduction in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes
Insecticide-induced leg loss does not eliminate biting and reproduction in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes
Researchers at LSTM have found that mosquitoes that lose multiple legs after contact with insecticide may still be able to spread malaria and lay...
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World Malaria Day 2017
World Malaria Day 2017
Tuesday 25th April is World Malaria Day and to consolidate the efforts of the last 12 months the theme remains 'End Malaria for Good', with the World...
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2017 Leverhulme Lecture - S. Patrick Kachur (CDC, USA)
2017 Leverhulme Lecture - S. Patrick Kachur (CDC, USA)
“Fetish or fulcrum: the appeal of commodities in 21st-century global malaria efforts”
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Bluedot Festival 2017
Bluedot Festival 2017
Bluedot is an annual festival of discovery that combines science, arts, music, and culture in to one big celebration held at Jodrell Bank.
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Cosmic Jam
Cosmic Jam
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LSTM Seminar Report: The past, present and threatened future of residual malaria transmission
LSTM Seminar Report: The past, present and threatened future of residual malaria transmission
Dr Gerry Killeen, reader at LSTM, based at Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania delivered a special seminar at LSTM entitled: The past, present and...
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LSTM Seminar: The past, present and threatened future of residual malaria transmission
LSTM Seminar: The past, present and threatened future of residual malaria transmission
The past, present and threatened future of residual malaria transmission
Dr Gerry Killeen. Reader Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, based at ... -
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Natalie Lissenden awarded funding from the Awesome Foundation for Microbes to Mosquitoes
Natalie Lissenden awarded funding from the Awesome Foundation for Microbes to Mosquitoes
Last night, LSTM’s Miss Natalie Lissenden was awarded £250 from the Awesome Foundation Liverpool for her project entitled “Microbes to Mosquitoes”...
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Mosquito Madness at Ness Botanic Gardens Family Science Fair
Mosquito Madness at Ness Botanic Gardens Family Science Fair
As part of British Science Week, visit Ness Gardens on Saturday 11th March between 1pm and 4pm for a free family event. There will be lots of hands-...
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Data to improve vector control programmes
Data to improve vector control programmes
LSTM Senior Lecturer Dr Mike Coleman introduced by Professor Janet Hemingway.
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Mosquito research receives $2 million grant to speed up the development of new vector control products
Mosquito research receives $2 million grant to speed up the development of new vector control products
LSTM’s Department of Vector Biology has received a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a research programme to develop novel...
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IVCC secure licence with Indian manufacturer for production of IQKs developed at LSTM
IVCC secure licence with Indian manufacturer for production of IQKs developed at LSTM
IVCC has signed a licence agreement with Tagros Chemicals India to manufacture and commercialise Insecticide Quantification Kits (IQKs) in India, and...
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LSTM Seminar Series: 'What have the genomes ever done for us? How population genomics is revolutionizing our understanding of resistance.'
LSTM Seminar Series: 'What have the genomes ever done for us? How population genomics is revolutionizing our understanding of resistance.'
Martin Donnelly, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Microbial Symbionts for control of mosquito-borne disease
Microbial Symbionts for control of mosquito-borne disease
Grant L. Hughes, PhD
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Restriction to gene flow is associated with changes in the molecular basis of pyrethroid resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles funestus
Restriction to gene flow is associated with changes in the molecular basis of pyrethroid resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles funestus
Researchers at LSTM have found that there is genetic diversity in the expression of genes responsible for resistance to public health insecticides in...
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LSTM researchers lead on 4 MRC Global Challenges Research Fund Foundations Awards
LSTM researchers lead on 4 MRC Global Challenges Research Fund Foundations Awards
Researchers at LSTM are to take the lead on four of the MRC’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Foundation Awards due to begin in 2017. Looking...
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Tales of an itinerant entomologist
Tales of an itinerant entomologist
LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway. Introduced by Professor Giancarlo Biagini.
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LSTM's Edward Thomsen awarded prestigious Grand Challenges Exploration grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
LSTM's Edward Thomsen awarded prestigious Grand Challenges Exploration grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
LSTM’s Edward Thomsen in the Department of Vector Biology has been awarded a prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration (GCE) grant, an initiative...
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Mosquito Diaries at the Manchester Science Festival
Mosquito Diaries at the Manchester Science Festival
LSTM’s Mosquito Diaries exhibit will be joining the Manchester Science Festival on the 24th – 28th October at the Museum of Science and Industry (...
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New study examines pyriproxyfen resistance in dual treated bednets
New study examines pyriproxyfen resistance in dual treated bednets
Researchers from LSTM have examined the mechanisms of resistance to the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen (PPF) in a paper published in ...
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APPG on Malaria & NTDs: Vector Control
APPG on Malaria & NTDs: Vector Control
Talks and discussions around Vector Control with LSTM's Professor Hilary Ranson and IVCC CEO Dr Nick Hamon
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LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
LSTM's Mosquito Diaries was one of the exhibitors at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. The exhibition was a week-long display of...
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Malaria nets still effective in reducing insecticide-resistant mosquitoes’ lifespan
Malaria nets still effective in reducing insecticide-resistant mosquitoes’ lifespan
African malaria mosquitoes considered to be “highly resistant” to insecticides may not be as invincible as previously thought. Although unaffected in...
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LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition opened today with LSTM's Mosquito Diaries as one of the exhibitors. The exhibition is a week-long display...
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Mosquito Diaries at National Insect Week 2016
Mosquito Diaries at National Insect Week 2016
LSTM’s vector group took part in National Insect Week 2016 at the World Museum in Liverpool at the weekend. Approximately 1000 members of the public...
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The Mosquito Diaries
The Mosquito Diaries
The annual Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition showcases cutting edge science and state of the art technology, The free, week-long festival...
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LSTM to co-ordinate £2.5 million insecticide resistance collaboration
LSTM to co-ordinate £2.5 million insecticide resistance collaboration
Researchers from LSTM and a number of prominent institutions in the UK and Africa have received £2.5 million in the form of a Wellcome Trust...
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LSTM Seminar: New insights on Plasmodium vivax biology
LSTM Seminar: New insights on Plasmodium vivax biology
LSTM’s seminar series continued last week with a presentation by Professor Laurent Rénia, Executive Director of the Singapore Immunology Network and...
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LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
LSTM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
A team from LSTM will be exhibiting, for the very first time, at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London in July 2016.
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World Malaria Day 2016
World Malaria Day 2016
Monday 25th April is World Malaria Day and it provides us with an opportunity to look at some of the cutting edge work that is being carried out at...
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Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium completes sudy on acceptability of alternative drugs and strategies to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Kenya
Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium completes sudy on acceptability of alternative drugs and strategies to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Kenya
Researchers at LSTM, working with colleagues at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) USA, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and...
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Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and WWARN join forces
Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and WWARN join forces
The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium, based at LSTM, has joined forces with the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) to establish a...
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Top academics: Without proactive approach to insecticide resistance, gains made in malaria prevention could be lost
Top academics: Without proactive approach to insecticide resistance, gains made in malaria prevention could be lost
LSTM’s Director Professor Janet Hemingway, along with 14 other eminent researchers in the field of vector biology, have put together an editorial...
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Researchers develop ART activity based probes to better understand how antimalarial drugs kill the plasmodium parasite
Researchers develop ART activity based probes to better understand how antimalarial drugs kill the plasmodium parasite
Researchers at LSTM have developed the means of better understanding the mode of action by which the most important antimalarial drugs, artemisinin (...
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Researchers at LSTM review the situation of insecticide resistance in the control of African Anopheles mosquitoes
Researchers at LSTM review the situation of insecticide resistance in the control of African Anopheles mosquitoes
LSTM’s Head of Vector Biology, Professor Hilary Ranson, along with LSTM’s Ms Natalie Lissenden have published a review in the journal Trends...
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LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund
LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund
On 25 January 2016 LSTM played host to The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, and the American philanthropist Bill Gates...
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Picture Gallery: LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund
Picture Gallery: LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund
Today, LSTM was host to The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, and the American philanthropist Bill Gates to talk in detail...
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LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund
LSTM hosts the formal announcement of the Ross Fund
Chancellor George Osborne and Bill Gates dedicate £3 billion to the fight against malaria and infectious diseases
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Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
A team from LSTM will be exhibiting at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London. The Science Exhibition is a week-long...
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LSTM awarded a place at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
LSTM awarded a place at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016
A team from LSTM will be exhibiting, for the very first time, at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London in July 2016. The...
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Mission Malaria!
Mission Malaria!
This weekend saw Liverpool’s World Museum hosting a special event entitled How the Body Works devised by the University of Liverpool. It was...
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Mission Malaria!
Mission Malaria!
LSTM’s Adriana Adolfi and colleagues will be supporting the University of Liverpool’s How the Body Works event, with demonstrations entitled Mission...
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LSTM receives GHIT fund award to continue the development of a new antimalarial compound
LSTM receives GHIT fund award to continue the development of a new antimalarial compound
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) together with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry (University of Liverpool (UoL)) and the...
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LSTM researchers decipher molecular basis of resistance in the African vector Anopheles funestus
LSTM researchers decipher molecular basis of resistance in the African vector Anopheles funestus
Researchers at LSTM have shown the means by which one of the major species of mosquito responsible for transmitting malaria in Africa is becoming...
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LSTM at the 2015 COR-NTD and ASTMH conferences
LSTM at the 2015 COR-NTD and ASTMH conferences
This week many LSTM staff and groups travelled to Philadelphia, USA to attend two important annual events within the 2015 calendar of Tropical...
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Professor Louis Niessen to talk at ASTMH
Professor Louis Niessen to talk at ASTMH
LSTM’s Chair in Health Economics, Professor Niessen will be speaking at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s (ASTMH) 64th annual...
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LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, outlines 15 years of malaria interventions in Africa in Nature journal
LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, outlines 15 years of malaria interventions in Africa in Nature journal
In an editorial in the weekly science journal Nature, LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, looks at how the last 15 years of control measures...
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LSTM’s 100th Mary Kingsley Medal for Professor Kevin Marsh of the University of Oxford
LSTM’s 100th Mary Kingsley Medal for Professor Kevin Marsh of the University of Oxford
LSTM has awarded the 100th Mary Kingsley Medal to Dr Kevin Marsh, Professor in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, for his contribution to...
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Latest study from MiP looks at alternative therapies to prevent malaria in pregnancy
Latest study from MiP looks at alternative therapies to prevent malaria in pregnancy
Researchers at LSTM, working with colleagues of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Kenya and USA, and from the Kenya Medical...
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The Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics at LSTM welcomes industry partners from Janssen Pharmaceutica
The Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics at LSTM welcomes industry partners from Janssen Pharmaceutica
LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD) today welcome industry partners from Janssen Pharmaceutica, with representatives from both...
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Better engagement with communities could improve health care for children with a fever
Better engagement with communities could improve health care for children with a fever
Supporting communities with health promotion campaigns could help mothers and other caregivers to seek health care for their children, ensuring that...
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Dr Mark Paine, returns to Wits to deliver faculty lecture
Dr Mark Paine, returns to Wits to deliver faculty lecture
Dr Mark Paine, a Reader in Insect Biochemistry at LSTM, returned to the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at...
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Latest Cochrane Review: Primaquine or other 8-aminoquinoline for reducing P. falciparum transmission
Latest Cochrane Review: Primaquine or other 8-aminoquinoline for reducing P. falciparum transmission
Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of adding a single dose of...
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Latest Cochrane Review: Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment for children with anaemia
Latest Cochrane Review: Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment for children with anaemia
Researchers from Tanzania and South Africa, who are part of the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent...
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Katherine Gleave Areas of interest: Mosquito Behaviour, Vector Control, Insecticide Resistance. -
Professor Philip McCall Areas of interest: Malaria, dengue, Zika, vector biology and behaviour, vector control -
Dr Anja (DJ) Terlouw Areas of interest: Malaria epidemiology in pregnancy and childhood, specifically antimalarial drug safety and dose optimisation and monitoring and evaluation of malaria control progress -
Daniel Southern Areas of Interest: Human African Trypanosomiasis, Animal African Trypanosomiasis and Vector husbandry. -
Dr Victoria Ingham Areas of Interest:Insecticide Resistance, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Bioinformatics -
Professor Giancarlo Biagini Areas of interest: Drug Discovery, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Physiology of human pathogens Plasmodium falciparum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. -
Dr Federica Guglielmo Areas of Interest: Medical anthropology; gender, kinship, household, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, mental health. -
Agnes Matope Areas of interest: Medical statistics, Longitudinal/multi-level/clustered data analysis, Survival data analysis -
Dr David Weetman Areas of interest: Insecticide resistance, population genetics and molecular ecology, vector control. -
Dr Christopher Jones Chris leads Vector Biology research at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi. He received his biology degree from the University of Durham before completing an M.Sc. at the London School of... -
Dr Suleiman Sadi Ibrahim Areas of Interest: Elucidation of molecular basis of metabolic resistance in field populations of Anopheles funestus across Africa. -
Professor Feiko ter Kuile Areas of interest: Malaria epidemiology -
Lizzie Bridget Tchongwe-Divala Lizzie is Wellcome Trust Masters Fellow in Public Health and Tropical Medicine under the vector biology group. Lizzie is currently studying a masters in molecular biology of parasites and Disease Vectors at LSTM. She obtained a... -
Dr Corrado Minetti Areas of interest: malaria, parasite epidemiology and molecular epidemiology, diagnostics, host-parasite-vector interactions, neglected tropical diseases. -
Mischa Emery Areas of interest:Vector control, Mosquito behaviour, Malaria, Chemical ecology, -
Dr Eva Maria Hodel Areas of interest: Pharmacological modelling, malaria, epidemiology, dosing regimens, adherence to antimalarial treatments -
Dr Hanafy Mahmoud Ismail Area of interest: Chemical Biology, Infection Biology, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). -
Edward Thomsen Areas of interest: vector biology, vector control, information technology, operational research, technical assistance, insecticide resistance -
Sanjay Nagi Areas of interest: Mosquito vectors, Insecticide resistance, short non coding RNA, Novel vector control tools, Volatile pyrethroids, Ivermectin -
John Essandoh Areas of interest: Insecticide resistance and landscape genetics in Anopheles gambiae -
André Bastos Daher Areas of interest: Malaria, Clinical Research, Clinical trials, Technological development in pharmaceuticals, Pharmacokinetics, Epidemiology -
Professor Alister Craig Areas of interest: Pathogenesis of cerebral malaria -
Sean Tomlinson Sean trained at the University of Lincoln (2012 – 2016), where he completed a 4-year BSc/MBio Biomedical Science course, focussing on molecular biology and genetic research themes.
In 2016, he joined the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership... -
Professor Stephen Ward Steve has over 30 years’ experience in drug discovery, drug development and tropical pharmacology. After a year working as a Senior Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, Steve returned to Liverpool begin his UK... -
Dr Rosemary Susan Lees Areas of interest: Development and management of insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of disease, Bioassay development and validation, Mosquito behaviour -
Dr Mike Coleman Areas of interest: Monitoring and evaluation of vector control programmes; operational and translational research to reducing morbidity and mortality in humans. -
Professor David Lalloo Areas of interest: Clinical trials in resource poor settings. HIV, malaria, cryptococcal disease, meningitis and envenoming. Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travel medicine. -
Dr Amy Lynd Areas of interest: Functional genetic analysis, behaviour, insecticide resistance and control of Anopheles mosquitoes -
Rosheen Mthawanji Areas of interest: Insecticide Resistance, Vector behaviour, vector fitness and control -
Dr Luc Salako Djogbenou Areas of interest: Host-pathogen interactions, behaviour and insecticide resistance of Anopheles gambiae -
Keith Steen Areas of interest: Establishing and maintaining insect colonies (mosquitoes, sandflies and tsetse), molecular techniques, insecticide resistance bioassays, fieldwork, teaching laboratory techniques, capacity building, mentorship. -
Professor Richard J. Pleass Areas of interest Structure and function of antibodies and their Fc-receptors in immunity to parasites. Background Richard Pleass graduated in Zoology from King’s College London in 1990. After an... -
Dr Eric Lucas Areas of interest: Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics, insecticide resistance. -
Dr Jenny Hill Areas of interest: Implementation research, programme evaluations and systematic reviews of malaria control interventions, with special focus on integration with maternal and child health programmes. -
Dr Ian Hastings Areas of interest:The general epidemiology and population genetics of human infectious diseases. Drug resistance in malaria and insecticide resistance in disease vectors. How strategies can be devised to slow the emergence and spread of... -
Jess Williams Areas of Interest: Mosquito insecticide resistance, Pesticide Bioassays, Cuticular resistance mechanisms