News & events

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.
Event 27 May 2020 2nd virtual Symposium on Global Health Research and Vaccination From: LSTM Please join us for LSTM's 2nd virtual symposium on Global Health Research & Vaccination ahead of the UK government hosting of Gavi's third donor...
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...