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The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), England
England

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, was founded on 12 November 1898, by a donation from Sir Alfred Lewis Jones
Alfred Lewis Jones

Sir Alfred Lewis Jones , United Kingdom ship-owner, was born in Carmarthenshire.At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to the managers of the African Steamship Company at Liverpool, making several voyages to the west coast of Africa....
, a Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
 Shipowner. The donation of £
Pound sterling

----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory....
350 created the first school of its kind.

The school has made many contributions to tropical medicine
Tropical medicine

Tropical medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or prove more difficult to control in tropics and subtropics regions....
 especially in identifying the vector for malaria
Malaria

Malaria is a Vector -borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in Tropics and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa....
, for which Sir Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was an Anglo-Indian physician. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for discovering the life cycle of the malarial parasite Plasmodium....
 won the first British Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 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
University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group, and founded in 1881 it is also one of the six original "red brick university" civic universities....
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The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, was founded on 12 November 1898, by a donation from Sir Alfred Lewis Jones
Alfred Lewis Jones

Sir Alfred Lewis Jones , United Kingdom ship-owner, was born in Carmarthenshire.At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to the managers of the African Steamship Company at Liverpool, making several voyages to the west coast of Africa....
, a Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
 Shipowner. The donation of £
Pound sterling

----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory....
350 created the first school of its kind.

The school has made many contributions to tropical medicine
Tropical medicine

Tropical medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or prove more difficult to control in tropics and subtropics regions....
 especially in identifying the vector for malaria
Malaria

Malaria is a Vector -borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in Tropics and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa....
, for which Sir Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was an Anglo-Indian physician. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for discovering the life cycle of the malarial parasite Plasmodium....
 won the first British Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 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
University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group, and founded in 1881 it is also one of the six original "red brick university" civic universities....
. In October 2005 Bill Gates
Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an United States business magnate, philanthropist, author, the List of the 100 wealthiest people , and chairman of the board of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen....
 donated £28million (USD $50.7m) to the school's research, which will more than double the size of the school.

Notable alumni

  • Francis Camps
    Francis Camps

    Francis Edward Camps, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path., D.T.M. & H., D.M.J. was a famous United Kingdom pathologist notable for his work on the cases of serial killer John Christie and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams....
  • Kevin De Cock
    Kevin De Cock

    Kevin M. De Cock, MD, is a Belgium scientist who is a citizen of the United States. He is the director of the World Health Organization Department of HIV/AIDS....
  • Matthew Lukwiya
    Matthew Lukwiya

    Dr. Matthew Lukwiya was a Ugandan physician and the supervisor of St. Mary's Hospital Lacor, outside of Gulu. He was at the forefront of the 2000 Ebola outbreak and the first doctor to die of the disease....
  • Sir Milton Margai
    Milton Margai

    Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai was a Sierra Leonean politician and the first prime minister of Sierra Leone. He was the main architect of the post-colonial constitution of Sierra Leone and guided his nation to independence in 1961....
     - first Prime Minister
    Prime minister

    A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
     of Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea in the northeast, Liberia in the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest....
  • Brig. John A. Sinton, VC, FRS
    John Alexander Sinton

    Brigadier John Alexander Sinton, Victoria Cross, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society, Deputy Lieutenant was an British people medical doctor, malaria and soldier, being a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom and Commonweal...


See also

  • Innovative Vector Control Consortium
    Innovative Vector Control Consortium

    The Innovative Vector Control Consortium is a consortium of five leading academic institutions. The IVCC's mission statement is "to improve health by enabling partnerships for the accelerated development and delivery of new products and tools that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the control of insects which transmit disease." It...
  • Michael Chan, Baron Chan
    Michael Chan, Baron Chan

    Michael Chew Koon Chan, Baron Chan, Order of British Empire was a Singaporean-United Kingdom physician and politician, of Han Chinese descent....
  • Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine
    Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine

    The Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine or Institute of Tropical Medicine is located in Antwerp, Belgium . The ITM is one of the world's leading institutes for training, research and services delivery in tropical medicine and health care in developing countries....
    , (Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
    )
  • Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was founded in 1907 by Sir James Cantlie and Dr. George Carmichael Low. Sir Patrick Manson, the Society's first President is generally acknowledged as the father of tropical medicine....


External links

  • from National Institutes of Health
    National Institutes of Health

    The National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research....