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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 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 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 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...
News article 10 Oct 2019 LSTM's Transposon Registry updated, backdated and upgraded From: LSTM A team of post-doctoral researchers, led by LSTM Reader, Dr Adam Roberts, have completed The Transposon Registry records for all transposons assigned...
News article 27 Sep 2019 LSTM Alumnus Dr. Michael Makanga returns to deliver a seminar on the role of EDCTP in poverty related infectious diseases research & development From: LSTM As part of LSTM’s Seminar Series Dr. Michael Makanga, Director of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and a...
News article 31 Jul 2019 Tickets now on sale for TEDxLSTM’s inaugural event 'Unknown Destinations' From: LSTM Tickets are now on sale for TEDxLSTM’s inaugural event Unknown Destinations, being held at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday 16th November. An...
Plasmodium falciparum late-stage gametocyte, one of the parasite stages targeted by primaquine News article 19 Jul 2019 Understanding the mode of action of the antimalarial primaquine: new insights into a 70 year old puzzle From: LSTM Researchers at LSTM have taken significant steps in understanding the way that the anti-malarial drug primaquine (PQ) works, which they hope will...
News article 5 Jul 2019 Researchers investigate the role of the nasal ecosystem and viral infection on acquisition of a bacterium that causes pneumonia From: LSTM LSTM researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, have looked at the...
News article 3 Jul 2019 £300k awarded for new translational research projects by CEIDR From: LSTM The Liverpool Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research (CEIDR) has awarded £300,000 to support seven new collaborative translational...
News article 25 Jun 2019 RSTMH and LSTM open nominations for the Hemingway Award 2019 From: LSTM Fellows and members of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and students, alumni or staff members of the Liverpool School of...
News article 10 Jun 2019 LSTM co-signs open letter calling for fairer UK visa system From: LSTM LSTM Director, Professor David Lalloo, is a signatory on a letter calling for a fair and equitable visa system that protects collaborations needed to...
News article 10 Jun 2019 Xpert Ultra test for diagnosing TB now included in Cochrane Review From: LSTM Tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide. Globally in 2017, of the...
Image ©WHO/M. Nieuwenhof - Vaccination facility in Lilongwe News article 24 Apr 2019 MLW Programme partner in first malaria vaccine roll out in Malawi From: LSTM 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...
News article 4 Apr 2019 Dr Samantha Donnellan reaches FameLab finals From: LSTM LSTM’s Dr Samantha Donnellan has made it to the final of FameLab UK which will be held as part of the Cheltenham Science Festival in June.
News article 29 Mar 2019 Research into tropical eye worm, Loa loa, yields new tests to rapidly assess safety of anti-filarial drugs From: LSTM Researchers at the LSTM’s Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (CDDR), and University of Buea, Cameroon, have developed new models of the tropical eye...
News article 28 Feb 2019 Typhoid vaccine may protect against other infections From: LSTM New research by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the University of Liverpool shows that vaccination with weakened strains of...
(Image: courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., United States.) [CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons News article 25 Jan 2019 LSTM and Imperial College Researchers design new anti-influenza drugs From: LSTM Researchers at LSTM and Imperial College London have designed drugs which could help combat any potential new flu pandemic, by targeting the...

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