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The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is a higher education institution and registered charity located in Liverpool, United Kingdom.OverviewEstablished in 1898, it was the first institution in the world dedicated to research and teaching in tropical medicine. The school has a research portfolio of over £220 million, assisted by funding from organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Department for International Development (DFID).LSTM’s first overseas expedition was to Sierra Leone in 1899 and it was in the same country where LSTM opened its first overseas research laboratory in 1921. As of 2013 LSTM has partnerships and projects operating in over 70 countries.