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person holding medicines and drinking water News article 26 Jan 2022 Researchers assess the impact of expanding the age range of children given seasonal anti-malarials in Burkina Faso Researchers at LSTM, working within the Malaria in Insecticide Resistant Africa (MIRA) project, have found that extending the age range of children...
News article 8 Jun 2021 Dr Jean Baptiste Bibie Yaro successfully defends thesis Congratulations to Dr Jean Baptiste Bibie Yaro who successfully defended his thesis on Monday 24th May 2021
Dr Natalie Lissenden News article 23 Mar 2020 Dr Natalie Lissenden successfully defends thesis Congratulations to Dr Natalie Lissenden who successfully defended her thesis on Friday 20th March 2020. 'My PhD thesis explored the sub-lethal...
News article 19 Mar 2020 Dr Antoine Sanou successfully defends thesis Congratulations to Dr Antoine Sanou who successfuly defended his thesis on Monday 16th March 2020 
News article 20 Jun 2019 In Memoriam: Carmel Bates From: LSTM Carmel Bates was a much loved Departmental Secretary in LSTM's Vector Biology Department who sadly passed away on 28th May 2019.
News article 2 Apr 2019 Professor Martin Donnelly appointed as Head of LSTM’s Department of Vector Biology From: LSTM LSTM is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Martin Donnelly as Head of the Department of Vector Biology.
News article 28 Feb 2019 LSTM Professor Janet Hemingway in Nature's News & Views: 'Battling disease by giving mosquitoes an antimalarial drug' From: LSTM LSTM’s Professor Janet Hemingway has provided a detailed “News & Views” article for the Journal Nature, looking at some of the combined...
Father putting his daughter under a bednet in Burkina Faso - ©Jed Stone News article 7 Feb 2019 LSTM receives grant to accelerate evaluation of next generation malaria control tools From: LSTM LSTM has been awarded a new US$3.9m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the ESSENTIALS project. This initiative aims to speed up...
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 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.
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 20 Apr 2018 PNAS: Rapid selection of a pyrethroid metabolic enzyme CYP9K1 by operational malaria control activities From: LSTM LSTM researchers, with partners from several international institutions, have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide...
News article 12 Apr 2018 Insecticide-resistant malaria vectors must be tackled From: LSTM LSTM’s Dr Gerry Killeen and Professor Hilary Ranson have called for the international community to be bolder in adopting new products for existing...
Health workers demonstrate bednets, Courtesy of Sven Torffin, WHO World Malaria Day 2017 News article 1 Dec 2017 Malaria research agenda stresses the need for innovation and integration From: LSTM New research agenda for malaria elimination and global eradication 'malERA' stresses the need for innovation and integrated approaches.Liverpool...
News article 11 Jul 2017 LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine speaks at Bluedot Festival From: LSTM Last weekend LSTM’s Dr Mark Paine gave at a talk at the Bluedot festival, an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep space...
News article 8 May 2017 LSTM faculties receive Athena SWAN Bronze Awards From: LSTM Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has achieved two faculty Bronze Awards for Athena SWAN of the Equality Challenge Unit. It is a...
News article 28 Apr 2017 Expanding the vector control toolbox to enable malaria elimination - Why what and how From: LSTM A trio of new analysis articles, led by LSTM’s Dr Gerry Killeen, have been published in British Medical Journal Global Health. The articles...
News article 21 Apr 2017 World Malaria Day 2017 From: LSTM Tuesday 25th April is World Malaria Day and to consolidate the efforts of the last 12 months the theme remains 'End Malaria for Good', with the...
Photograph © M. Hallahan/Sumitomo Chemical News article 21 Sep 2016 New study examines pyriproxyfen resistance in dual treated bednets From: LSTM Researchers from LSTM have examined the mechanisms of resistance to the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen (PPF) in a paper published in Insect...
News article 11 Jul 2016 Malaria nets still effective in reducing insecticide-resistant mosquitoes’ lifespan From: LSTM African malaria mosquitoes considered to be “highly resistant” to insecticides may not be as invincible as previously thought. Although unaffected in...
News article 8 Jun 2016 AvecNet end of project dissemination meeting From: LSTM This week saw the AvecNet end of project dissemination meeting in the Lowry Theatre in Salford, UK. It was a chance for the 10 European and seven...
News article 18 May 2016 LSTM to co-ordinate £2.5 million insecticide resistance collaboration From: LSTM Researchers from LSTM and a number of prominent institutions in the UK and Africa have received £2.5 million in the form of a Wellcome Trust...