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News article LSTM ends 2022 on a high! LSTM ends 2022 on a high! 2022 has been a busy year for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. LSTM completed extra pandemic workstreams – vaccine efficacy and safety trials...
News article Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine awarded £4.7 million to establish a new Human Challenge Facility, for infectious disease research Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine awarded £4.7 million to establish a new Human Challenge Facility, for infectious disease research LiverpoolSchool of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is celebrating being awarded £4.7 million in funding from the Research England Development (RED) Fund....
News article Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine awarded £4.7 million to establish a new Human Challenge Facility, for infectious disease research Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine awarded £4.7 million to establish a new Human Challenge Facility, for infectious disease research LiverpoolSchool of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is celebrating being awarded £4.7 million in funding from the Research England Development (RED) Fund....
News article LSTM launches spinout 'iiDiagnostics' to support industry academic co-innovation LSTM launches spinout 'iiDiagnostics' to support industry academic co-innovation
LSTM has launched a spinout, iiDiagnostics, to enable industry engagement and commercial access to the world-leading diagnostics R&D capability...
News article iiCON supports Liverpool SME developing ‘game-changing’ lateral flow test technology iiCON supports Liverpool SME developing ‘game-changing’ lateral flow test technology Nano Biosols, an SME based at Liverpool Science Park, has filed a patent for novel technology it has developed to enhance the sensitivity of lateral...
News article Excalibur rapid SARS-COV-2 antigen screening test, validated by LSTM, granted MHRA approval Excalibur rapid SARS-COV-2 antigen screening test, validated by LSTM, granted MHRA approval Excalibur Healthcare Services Ltd, a UK-based provider of high-quality medical products and services, has announced that its Rapid SARS COV-2 Antigen...
Event LSTM Seminar: Jose Gomez-Marquez on 'Construction Kits for Health' LSTM Seminar: Jose Gomez-Marquez on 'Construction Kits for Health' Construction Kit methodology applied to global health hardware settings generated an enabling fabrication framework aimed at making clinical...
News article Cochrane review looks at the accuracy of Xpert® MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB Cochrane review looks at the accuracy of Xpert® MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB 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 Ultrasound method to predict worm burden in the hunt for new drugs to treat Lymphatic Filariasis Ultrasound method to predict worm burden in the hunt for new drugs to treat Lymphatic Filariasis Researchers from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD), have developed an ultrasound technique to reliably detect infection with...
News article LSTM’s Dr Samantha Donnellan receives prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship LSTM’s Dr Samantha Donnellan receives prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship Dr Samantha Donnellan, from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Winston Churchill...
News article (Centre site) Diagnostics for bacterial infection published in Scientific Reports From: CDDR Diagnostics for bacterial infection published in Scientific Reports A report from the RCDD diagnostic development group detailing the design of a molecular test for the species determination of Gram-negative bacteria...
News article Discussing diagnostics on BBC Radio Merseyside Discussing diagnostics on BBC Radio Merseyside LSTM’s Dr Emily Adams has been this year’s first guest on BBC Radio Merseyside’s SciFri, talking to presenter Tony Snell about her diagnostics...
Event BBC Radio Merseyside - Sci Fri BBC Radio Merseyside - Sci Fri SciFri is an LSTM-initiative which sees academics from across LSTM, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool speak on BBC...
News article RCDD reports on a new way of screening potential treatments for tuberculosis RCDD reports on a new way of screening potential treatments for tuberculosis In a paper published in Scientific Reports scientists from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD) have described a new way of...
News article MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2016-2017 Now open for applications MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2016-2017 Now open for applications The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept Award 2016-17 of £549,000 which can be allocated to individual...
News article Seminar Series Report: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy in infectious diseases. Seminar Series Report: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy in infectious diseases. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Mariska Leeflang from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and...
Event LSTM Seminar Series: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy in infectious diseases LSTM Seminar Series: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy in infectious diseases Mariska Leeflang
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics,
Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam,...
News article LSTM Seminar Series Report: ‘Tuberculosis in 2016 – Burden, challenges, innovations’ LSTM Seminar Series Report: ‘Tuberculosis in 2016 – Burden, challenges, innovations’ LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a seminar by Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the Global TB Programme for the World Health...
News article MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2015-16 MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2015-16 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept fund 2015-16 of £500,000 which can be allocated to...
News article LSTM and Lancaster University receive MRC Doctoral Training Partnership funding LSTM and Lancaster University receive MRC Doctoral Training Partnership funding Scheme allows recruitment of up to 7 PhD students per intake year
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Lancaster University (LU) have...
Media NTD diagnostics. Emily Adams NTD diagnostics. Emily Adams Session from: Addressing the chronic pandemic of neglected tropical diseases the first decade & onwards
Wednesday, 15th April 2015 - Leggate...
Event LIV-Dx (Liverpool Diagnostics) welcomes you to a talk by Remy Teyssou, Scientific co-ordinator for the Partnership for Dengue Control. LIV-Dx (Liverpool Diagnostics) welcomes you to a talk by Remy Teyssou, Scientific co-ordinator for the Partnership for Dengue Control. Partnership for Dengue Control (PDC) is an initiative that was formed in 2013 in response to the changing paradigm for dengue control.
The purpose of...
News article Cochrane Review of RDT for diagnosis of drug resistant TB Cochrane Review of RDT for diagnosis of drug resistant TB Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to examine the diagnostic accuracy of...

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