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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...
News article 19 Jul 2023 Search for effective CCHF Treatments: first patient dosed in novel clinical trial platform in Turkiye From: LSTM July 18th 2023 –Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Dr. Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital in Ankara...
News article 13 Mar 2023 A large LSTM-led trial confirms new antimalarial, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, is more effective at preventing malaria than current WHO recommended treatment but does not improve adverse birth outcomes. From: LSTM A large multi-country trial of 4680 women in sub-Sahara Africa, looking at new antimalarial treatment for pregnant women in Africa, led by Prof....
News article 2 Feb 2023 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine awarded £4.7 million to establish a new Human Challenge Facility, for infectious disease research From: LSTM LiverpoolSchool of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is celebrating being awarded £4.7 million in funding from the Research England Development (RED) Fund....
News article 5 Jan 2023 LSTM and MLW researchers part of team calling for simpler diagnostic tools for chronic hepatitis B patients in Africa From: LSTM A group of international researchers, including those from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Malawi Liverpool Welcome Trust (MLW...
News article 21 Jun 2022 Ivermectin for COVID-19 review update: 11 trials and no evidence of benefit shown From: LSTM There remains no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection, state the authors of an updated Cochrane...
iiCON has supported 11 new products to market in 18 months News article 6 May 2022 iiCON supports 11 new products to market in first 18 months From: LSTM The LSTM-led consortium, iiCON: Infection Innovation Consortium, has supported 11 new products to market since launching in September 2020, with a...
Borrelia burgdorferi - credit: CDC News article 7 Jul 2021 LSTM’s Dr Lucas Cunningham receives funding from Caudwell LymeCo Charity to develop an iPCR assay to detect Lyme disease. From: LSTM LSTM’s Dr Lucas Cunningham has been awarded £35,000 from the Caudwell LymeCo Charity, a charity which raises money specifically for diagnostics and...
News article 25 Mar 2021 Small Molecule Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Snakebite From: LSTM The Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions has published an opinion piece on the promise of small molecule drugs as new snakebite...
News article 2 Mar 2021 Discovery of a mechanism of lymphatic disease leads to new opportunities to treat filariasis morbidity From: LSTM A research team led by investigators at LSTMs Centres for Drugs & Diagnostics (CDD) and Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) have determined a...
Hydroxychloroquine bottle held in hand in doctors office with patient News article 11 Feb 2021 New Cochrane Review shows chloroquine doesn’t help people with COVID-19 From: LSTM Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce deaths from COVID-19, and probably does not reduce the number of people needing mechanical ventilation, state the...
Sports equipment News article 10 Feb 2021 Transmission risk of COVID-19 from sports equipment From: LSTM A team, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's Dr Emily Adams, has investigated the transmission risk of COVID-19 from sports equipment,...
News article 18 Jun 2020 LSTM's third virtual symposium on Global Health Research & Vaccination: Private sector partnership, research and accelerating the development of new tools From: LSTM LSTM hosted the last in a series of online symposia that addressed the role of research in vaccine development and delivery and the creation of...
News article 22 May 2020 LSTM named as a site for Phase III of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine human trials From: LSTM LSTM has begun recruiting frontline health and social care workers to take part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial.
World Immunization Week 2020 banner News article 27 Apr 2020 LSTM & World Immunization Week 2020 From: LSTM During World Immunization Week we celebrate vaccines and the role of vaccine researchers in Global Health. We take this opportunity to celebrate some...
News article 8 Apr 2020 BMJ editorial: LSTM clinicians call for rapid near-patient testing for COVID-19 From: LSTM Drs Nick Beeching, Tom Fletcher, and Mike Beadsworth from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s...
News article 31 Mar 2020 LSTM's Respiratory Clinical Research Group conducts key COVID-19 research in patients & healthcare workers From: LSTM During the current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, LSTM's Respiratory Clinical Research Group wants to know whether people...
News article 27 Mar 2020 LSTM begins the validation process for the Mologic COVID-19 point-of-need diagnostic test From: LSTM Independent assessment and validation of COVID-19 diagnostic test has been initiated at LSTM by Dr. Emily Adams and her research group, along with...
News article 24 Mar 2020 “Antibodies will make a significant contribution to design effective control strategies for COVID-19” From: LSTM LSTM’s Professor Richard Pleass has been interviewed by ProteoGenix about how his ground-breaking work leveraging the Fc region of antibodies could...
News article 12 Mar 2020 LSTM researchers work on new diagnostics for COVID-19 From: LSTM Researchers at LSTM are working to develop and evaluate new diagnostic tests for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 that can be carried out in close to...
News article 13 Feb 2020 LSTM's Dr Ryan Robinson nominated in the 2020 North West Research and Innovation Awards From: LSTM Clinical Research Fellow at LSTM, Dr Ryan Robinson, has been nominated for a Rising Star award for 2020 North West Research and Innovation Awards.
SnakeOrganoids: Credit Ravian Van Ineveld Copyright- Princess Maxima Center For Pediatric Oncology News article 22 Jan 2020 Venom-producing snake organoids developed in the lab From: LSTM Professor Nick Casewell from LSTM’s Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) has been involved in a ground-breaking project that has...
News article 22 Jan 2020 Next important phase in infectious diseases research in Liverpool launched From: LSTM Professor Dame Sally Davies, former Chief Medical Officer and current UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, visited Liverpool today to help...
News article 10 Jan 2020 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture - Dr David Nabarro CBE on 'Engaging in complex issues to secure the future' From: LSTM
Dr David Nabarro (left) receives the Leverhulme medal from LSTM Director David Lalloo News article 29 Nov 2019 LSTM’s inaugural Future Focus event with Dr David Nabarro's Leverhulme Lecture From: LSTM In the lead up to LSTM’s 125th anniversary in 2023 the first of a programme of ‘Future Focus’ events was held at Liverpool’s Maritime Museum, a...
News article 28 Nov 2019 LSTM 2018-2019 Annual Report now available From: LSTM The 2018-2019 LSTM Annual Report and Financial Statements are now available to view online. 
From left, winners Gala Garrod, Natalie Lissenden and Katherine Gleave News article 27 Nov 2019 LSTM’s inaugural Athena Swan Outstanding Contribution Award From: LSTM LSTM presented its inaugural Athena Swan Outstanding Contribution Award during the November session of the School Staff Forum.
News article 25 Nov 2019 Team members take part in a sell-out TEDx event at Liverpool Museum Dr Samantha Donnellan, Professor Nicholas Casewell and Professor Sally Theobald took part in the TEDxLSTM event last weekend in...
News article 25 Nov 2019 A new publication in the Journal of Immunology is highlighted in Nature A key publication from LSTM reseachers was one of the highest read in the Journal of Immunology this summer. https://www.jimmunol.org/...
News article 25 Nov 2019 New TB article published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Professor Giancarlo Biagini's group work to improve TB treatment outcomes, using a high content imaging platform for intracellular infections and PK/...
News article 19 Nov 2019 Lancet Infectious Diseases: British researchers call for the development of new antibiotics to be brought into the public sector and tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance. From: LSTM The researchers, from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and Oxford Martin School say a two-...
News article 18 Nov 2019 LSTM Scientists highlight the dangers of antibiotic resistance in support of European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) and World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) 2019 From: LSTM
News article 22 Oct 2019 Updated Cochrane Review published: Lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay for detecting active tuberculosis in people living with HIV From: LSTM Tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths in people living with HIV than any other disease, with more than 300,000 deaths in 2017. When detected, early TB...

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