The Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases provides a world class lab facility to address new challenges in the treatment of infectious diseases through drug and vaccine design and development, initiation and management of clinical trials, pesticide and vector control design and development and cell and molecular biology pathogen research,Research at LSTM takes a whole system approach, taking lab based research to clinical trials and on to implementation of health systems, where evidence-based studies inform the next generation of research in the laboratory.