Our campus and facilities

We designed our campus for collaboration. Our facilities bring together advanced laboratories, immersive learning technologies and dedicated innovation spaces.

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s Mary Kingsley building, with its red-brick façade and arched windows alongside a modern red annex displaying the LSTM logo, landscaped planting and an accessible ramp leading to the main entrance.

A place for world-leading research and translational impact.

Since 1898, we have delivered groundbreaking research and outstanding teaching in tropical medicine. Today, our estate brings historic buildings together with modern facilities to create an inspiring, flexible environment for advanced postgraduate study and research.

Everything is close by, with teaching spaces, specialist laboratories and support services within walking distance. And because we’re based in Liverpool, you can make the most of a vibrant student city with great transport links, culture, and a wide choice of accommodation.

Exterior view of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on Pembroke Place, showing the historic red-brick building alongside the modern LSTM extension with the school’s logo visible on the wall under a bright blue sky.

Human Challenge Facility

One of only a handful of such centres worldwide, our Human Challenge Facility runs controlled human infection studies. It’s a highly specialised unit that accelerates the development of new vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. It enables the safe study of early-stage infections under the highest ethical and biosafety standards.

Human Challenge Facility

Liverpool Robotic Infection Research Laboratory

This specialist lab provides dedicated spaces for high-throughput automated screening and data-driven research. Its advanced robotic platforms streamline complex experimental processes to support infectious disease and vector biology research.

Liverpool Robotic Infection Research Laboratory

The Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory

Provides a specialist diagnostic service to hospitals, clinics and health professionals across the UK and internationally; offering specialist testing for a wide range of human parasitic infections;

Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory

Accelerator Research Clinic

This facility brings our clinical and laboratory teams together in one place, making it easier to work side by side and process samples quickly. It also offers a more flexible, participant-friendly space, giving people more choice about how they take part in our studies.

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Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment

A specialist facility for testing insecticide-based products with commercial and academic partners, helping speed up the development of tools that protect people from mosquito-borne disease.

Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment

Well Travelled Clinics

A recognised centre of excellence, providing specialist pre- and post-travel and occupational health services to the public and to UK-based corporate clients, with fast access to expert advice and vaccines.

Well Travelled Clinic

Herpetarium

Our Herpetarium is the UK’s only Home Office-accredited experimental animal facility dedicated to venomous snakes. It underpins the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, helping us study venom and develop better treatments for snakebite.

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A researcher in blue scrubs carefully handles a snake during a venom extraction process, guiding the snake’s fangs to bite onto a glass vial held in a clamp within a laboratory setting.

Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases

Spread across three floors, well-equipped laboratories and world-leading insectaries that underpin many of LSTM’s global research partnerships. Offering facilities such as molecular biology suites and advanced imaging equipment, it supports research into malaria, neglected tropical diseases, antimicrobial resistance and vector control.

Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator

This purpose-built facility connects academia, healthcare and industry partners in Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter. It includes specialist facilities such as high-containment Category 3 laboratories (designed for safely handling higher-risk infectious agents) and insectaries, creating the right environment for research, product development and partnership working under one roof.

Pembroke House

Our flagship learning and collaboration space, the heritage architecture of Pembroke House is synonymous with LSTM. Incorporating modern design and advanced facilities, it features immersive simulation suites, digital learning commons and flexible study areas.

Library

Our library provides world-class access to knowledge in tropical medicine, infectious disease and global health. Combining historic collections with up-to-the-minute digital resources, it supports students, researchers and global partners in-person and remotely.

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A student sits at a desk in the library, focused on writing notes in a notebook. Shelves filled with colourful academic books line the background, and an LSTM-branded water bottle is placed on the desk beside him.