Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 1048406 203759006 2008-04-06T14:53:35Z SmackBot 433328 Add references section and/or general fixes. 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== <references /> ==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]] {{UK-university-stub}} {{England-stub}} [[it:Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine]]