Scientists based in a group of buildings in Liverpool have been working away on solving some of the world's biggest problems nearly 125 years.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, which is turning 125 next year, is housed in several buildings just off London Road on Pembroke Place. Its main building is so unassuming that it could be anything - it does resemble a university, which is what it technically is, but it could just as equally be the home of a state of the art sports centre or even a swimming pool.
In reality the school is the centre of a vast international operation that extends from Merseyside to Malawi and even further out into the world. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) was and still is at the forefront of research into the Ebola and Zika virus epidemics which threatened the world, and of course into coronavirus, which shut down global economies in a health crisis which touched everyone.
