News & events

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...
Event 10 Oct 2019 LSTM Seminar: Jose Gomez-Marquez on 'Construction Kits for Health' From: LSTM Construction Kit methodology applied to global health hardware settings generated an enabling fabrication framework aimed at making clinical...
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...