News & events

News article 10 Mar 2017 MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2016-2017 Now open for applications From: LSTM 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 20 Feb 2017 The UK Coalition Against NTDs join forces to advance the agenda 5 Years On From: LSTM The World Health Organisation’s roadmap on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and the London Declaration on NTDs are marking their 5th anniversary...
Event 16 Feb 2017 MRC CiC Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium Annual Meeting From: CDDR     09.30Registrations - Manson Foyer / Refreshments – South Courtyard Café area10.00Welcome to the MRC CiC Consortium Meeting -...
News article 27 Jan 2017 Fifth anniversary of the London Declaration on NTDs: Progress made and challenges remaining From: LSTM As we move towards the five-year anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), LSTM’s Senior Professorial Fellow David...
News article 18 Jan 2017 Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research launched From: LSTM LSTM and the University of Liverpool have launched a new joint centre which aims to address the urgent need to develop new antimicrobials and...
Fig 2. Histological analysis of endobacteria content and worm age. News article 6 Jan 2017 A·WOL compared various drugs for their efficacy against onchocerciasis in a randomized, open-label, pilot trial This week, scientists from the A·WOL Consortium published a paper entitled: Comparison of Doxycycline, Minocycline, Doxycycline plus Albendazole and...
News article 15 Nov 2016 New drug candidate for the curative treatment of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis From: LSTM The LSTM based A-WOL consortium discovered the molecule TylAMac™ , which has been selected as a candidate for development as the first drug designed...
News article 9 Nov 2016 LSTM Seminar: Microbial symbionts for control of mosquito-borne disease. From: LSTM There was a special seminar at LSTM this week with a presentation by Grant Hughes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the...