Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, a Liverpool shipowner, together with members of the business community, founded Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1898, the first of its kind in the world. Between 1898 and 1913 LSTM despatched no fewer than 32 expeditions to the tropics, including Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South America.
Sir Ronald Ross, Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM, became the first British winner of a Nobel prize for medicine when, in 1902, he was recognised for his discovery that malaria is carried by mosquitoes. LSTM’s scientists also developed the first drug to treat malaria and pioneered treatments for sleeping sickness and relapsing fever.
Africa has been the setting for many of LSTM’s outstanding achievements. These include the discovery of links between insects and onchocerciasis (river blindness) and elephantiasis and new organisms which affect humans, including some associated with HIV.
Sleeping sickness and meningitis are two of the serious diseases tackled recently in Uganda and Ghana, and in areas of conflict, including the Congo (Zaire), Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sierra Leone, LSTM's scientists have persevered against great odds to sustain crucial treatment and control programmes.
Through the years, students and staff have disseminated LSTM’s work throughout the world.
Sir Ronald Ross, Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM, became the first British winner of a Nobel prize for medicine when, in 1902, he was recognised for his discovery that malaria is carried by mosquitoes. LSTM’s scientists also developed the first drug to treat malaria and pioneered treatments for sleeping sickness and relapsing fever.
Africa has been the setting for many of LSTM’s outstanding achievements. These include the discovery of links between insects and onchocerciasis (river blindness) and elephantiasis and new organisms which affect humans, including some associated with HIV.
Sleeping sickness and meningitis are two of the serious diseases tackled recently in Uganda and Ghana, and in areas of conflict, including the Congo (Zaire), Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sierra Leone, LSTM's scientists have persevered against great odds to sustain crucial treatment and control programmes.
Through the years, students and staff have disseminated LSTM’s work throughout the world.
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