Research Highlights from LCNTDR

LCNTDR's new research booklet 'An Innovative Research Collaboration: Selected Research Highlights' (PDF 3MB) seeks to outline just some of the research activities being undertaken by LCNTDR's members. The booklet contains 14 articles in which the researchers provide a non-technical introduction to their research, why the research is necessary and the impact that they hope the research will have. 

The research projects highlighted in the booklet include:

• Informing WHO schistosomiasis strategies through mathematical modelling - Imperial College London
• DeWorm3: Demonstrating the feasibility of soil-transmitted helminth elimination - Natural History Museum, Imperial College London and LSHTM
• Immunological basis of scarring trachoma - LSHTM
• Epidemiology and evolution of zoonotic schistosomiasis in a changing world - Royal Veterinary College
• How modelling is helping to identify the most effective strategies to control pork tapeworm - Imperial College London
• Identifying the best treatment regime to treat Yaws - LSHTM
• Reaching the 2020 elimination goals for human onchocerciasis - Imperial College London and Royal Veterinary College
• Understanding the impact of lymphatic filariasis in Nigeria - Imperial College London 
• Developing a new vaccine to protect against Trachoma: TRACVAC - LSHTM
• WHO Collaborating Centre for the identification of schistosomes and their snail hosts - Natural History Museum
• Slides or dipsticks? Identifying the best diagnosis tools for schistosomiasis - Imperial College London
• Spraying fences in Sudan to reduce visceral leishmaniasis transmission - LSHTM
• WEAR: WEarable Aedes Repellent Technologies - LSHTM
• BALZAC: Behavioural Adaptations and Zoonose Control in Bangladesh - Royal Veterinary College