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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...
News article 8 Jan 2019 LSTM and UoL researchers design new anti-Wolbachia drug with potential to treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis From: LSTM Researchers from LSTM and the University of Liverpool have successfully optimised a hit from a whole cell screening of a 10000-compound library to...
LSTM Director Professor Janet Hemingway with Honorary Degree recipients Dr Letitia Obeng (left) and Professor Victor Mwapasa (right) News article 7 Dec 2018 LSTM’s inaugural graduation ceremony From: LSTM LSTM has held its first independent graduation ceremony at Liverpool’s iconic Liver Building on Thursday 6th December, after having received its...
News article 4 Dec 2018 LSTM's December Open Day From: LSTM LSTM welcomed prospective students as it opened its doors for December’s postgraduate open day.
News article 11 Oct 2018 LSTM launches MSc Global Health at the Fifth Global symposium of Health Systems Research From: LSTM Against the backdrop of more than 2000 international delegates meeting in Liverpool to discuss health systems research, LSTM has launched a new...
News article 11 Oct 2018 LSTM Scientific Conference: The role of vector control in disease elimination From: LSTM As part of the two days celebrating the work of Professor Janet Hemingway CBE FRS as she retires as LSTM’s Director, a scientific conference was held...
News article 21 Sep 2018 Swab and Send at New Scientist Live in London From: LSTM The New Scientist Live Exhibition opened this week at the ExCel exhibition centre in London with LSTM's Dr Adam Roberts’s Swab and Send project as...
News article 19 Sep 2018 LSTM and TB Alliance collaborate to develop new TB therapies From: LSTM This new partnership is supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to research drug regimens to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis
News article 18 Sep 2018 LSTM’s Dr Grant Hughes recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. From: LSTM LSTM’s senior lecturer Dr Grant Hughes has been announced as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship.
News article 14 Sep 2018 LSTM led partnership awarded £1.5 million for NTD drug development From: LSTM An LSTM led partnership has been awarded nearly £1.5 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) for the pre-clinical development of a candidate...
News article 10 Sep 2018 New paper shows conserved networks of collateral susceptibility to antibiotics in the human pathogen Escherichia coli From: LSTM LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts is a co-author on a new paper published in Nature Communications which reports conserved collateral susceptibility to...
News article 28 Aug 2018 Cochrane review looks at the accuracy of Xpert® MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB From: LSTM In one-fifth of people with active tuberculosis (TB), the site of disease is outside the lungs (extrapulmonary TB). Some forms of extrapulmonary TB,...
News article 17 Jul 2018 Leading the way in diseases of poverty in the tropics We are delighted to have been featured in BioPharma Dealmakers magazine.
News article 28 Jun 2018 LSTM commits to pay the ‘UK settlement’ fee for its EU employees From: LSTM Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has announced it will pay the forthcoming UK settlement fee for its EU citizen employees.
From left: Professor Mortimer, Professor Harrison, Professor Ferreria News article 11 Jun 2018 LSTM announces 4 new professorships From: LSTM LSTM is delighted to announce the promotion of four members of its academic staff to Professors, following ratification by its Board of Trustees.
News article 29 May 2018 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) appoints Professor David Lalloo as its new Director From: LSTM The Board of Trustees of LSTM is delighted to announce that Professor David Lalloo has been appointed as its new Director. He will succeed Professor...
News article 16 May 2018 LSTM receives Wellcome Innovator Award to test novel medications for immune-mediated neuropathies From: LSTM LSTM’s Professor Richard Pleass has been awarded a Wellcome Innovator Award to improve the treatment for people suffering from a range of immune-...
News article 4 May 2018 New paper published in Communications Biology on antivenom In this study, Dr Stuart Ainsworth characterised the action of various snake venoms on the blood clotting cascade, and demonstrate that...
News article 4 May 2018 Multipurpose HTS Coagulation Analysis: Assay Development and Assessment of Coagulopathic Snake Venoms The RCDD snake venom research group have developed a high throughput small-scale screening assay for detecting compounds that perturb coagulation....
News article 26 Apr 2018 Fighting pneumonia with new research clinic From: LSTM LSTM’s Experimental Human Pneumococcal Colonisation (EHPC) team have opened a state-of-the-art research clinic in the new Accelerator building,...
News article 12 Apr 2018 Ultrasound method to predict worm burden in the hunt for new drugs to treat Lymphatic Filariasis From: LSTM Researchers from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD), have developed an ultrasound technique to reliably detect infection with...
Wycliffe Onyango, clinical officer, draws blood for mosquito feeding from one of the study patients [patient gave written consent to publish photo] News article 28 Mar 2018 LSTM study shows drug that kills mosquitoes could be used to fight malaria From: LSTM Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have shown the large potential impact of a completely new type of antimalarial drug...
News article 23 Mar 2018 World TB day 2018 From: LSTM This year’s theme for World TB Day is Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world, and is in line with LSTM’s determination to be an institution training the...
News article 9 Mar 2018 LSTM’s Dr Samantha Donnellan receives prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship From: LSTM Dr Samantha Donnellan, from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Winston Churchill...
News article 3 Mar 2018 A functional and transferable colistin resistance gene found in a major pathogen of developing nations From: LSTM A researcher at LSTM, working with a team of Chinese investigators, has reported that the gene responsible for resistance to a last resort antibiotic...
News article 22 Feb 2018 Professor Philip Padfield becomes LSTM's first Dean of Education From: LSTM Professor Philip Padfield has been appointed as LSTM's Dean of Education. He will take up his post in May and comes with a wealth of experience in...

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