Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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The '''Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine''' (LSTM), [[England]], was founded on [[12 November]] [[1898]], by a donation from Sir [[Alfred Lewis Jones]], a [[Liverpool]] Shipowner. The donation of [[Pound sterling|£]]350 created the first school of its kind.
The school has made many contributions to [[tropical medicine]] especially in identifying the vector for [[malaria]], for which Sir [[Ronald Ross]] won the first British [[Nobel Prize]] in [[1902]]. Its focus today is on the control of the diseases of poverty.
Today the school continues its work as a post-graduate school and is a registered charity affiliated to the [[University of Liverpool]]. In October [[2005]] [[Bill Gates]] donated £28million (USD $50.7m) to the school's research, which will more than double the size of the school.
==Notable alumni==
* [[Francis Camps]]
* [[Kevin De Cock]]
* [[Matthew Lukwiya]]
* [[Milton Margai|Sir Milton Margai]] - first [[Prime Minister]] of [[Sierra Leone]]<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5221/is_2005/ai_n19138546 Sir Milton Augustus Striery Margai, UXL Newsmakers, 2005]</ref>
* [[John Alexander Sinton|Brig. John A. Sinton, VC, FRS]]
==See also==
*[[Innovative Vector Control Consortium]]
*[[Michael Chan, Baron Chan]]
*[[Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine]], ([[Belgium]])
*[[Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/ LSTM Home page]
* [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1035005&blobtype=pdf B.G.Maegraith - "History of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine"] from [[National Institutes of Health]]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4385432.stm BBC Report on Bill Gates donation]
* [http://www.merseyworld.com/precinct/Dec98/prec7.html A Century of Achievement for the School of Tropical Medicine]
* [http://www.who.int/tdr/profiles/partners/liverpool.htm Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1898]]
[[Category:University of Liverpool]]
[[Category:Medical research institutes]]
[[Category:Schools of medicine in England]]
[[Category:Research institutes in England]]
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