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The A∙WOL antifilarial drug discovery team. News article 12 Jun 2024 A∙WOL antifilarial drug discovery team win prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize From: LSTM The A∙WOL antifilarial drug discovery team has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Horizon Prize, which celebrates discoveries...
News article 22 Mar 2024 LSTM researcher receives Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award for a project investigating drug resistance in E. Coli From: LSTM The Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) has awarded £125,000 to Dr Thomas Edwards at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) to support his...
A graphic showing how graphene molecules might look under a microsope. News article 4 Mar 2024 Cutting-edge graphene 'lab on a chip' medical diagnostic technology investigated in new project From: LSTM A new project will investigate how advanced graphene technology could be utilised to rapidly detect infection and act as the basis for new medical...
Image of laboratory News article 16 Jan 2024 LSTM's Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics awarded close to £10m to aid expansion From: LSTM Research England has awarded £9.8 million to the Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (CDD) at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) to train the...
News article 15 Jan 2024 New drug treatment could reduce malaria rates for pregnant women with HIV From: LSTM A new drug treatment could help to prevent malaria during pregnancy for women living with HIV, new research suggests.
A saw scaled viper (Image: R Wilson) News article 14 Dec 2023 New drug combinations raise hopes of effective, locally administered snakebite treatment From: LSTM New drug combinations could protect snakebite victims from the devastating, life-changing injuries caused by toxic venom, promising new research led...
E.coli samples News article 22 Nov 2023 New research aims to prevent transmission of enteric bacteria and tackle antimicrobial resistance From: LSTM New research seeks to better understand where and how Escherichia coli is acquired, enabling more effective interventions to prevent transmission and...
Plaque assays which are done to quantify virus infectivity News article 11 Oct 2023 Molecular compound does not generate antiviral response to COVID infection, study shows From: LSTM A type of drug that had been suggested as a potential COVID-19 treatment may not be clinically useful, a study led by Liverpool School of Tropical...