Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment (LITE) provides a professional testing service to commercial partners to accelerate the development of new public health insecticides and vector control tools.
Established by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and funded by IVCC, LITE employs a team of research technicians, study directors, research assistants and quality assurance specialists. LITE’s goal is to be a world leader in providing quality services that help improve the health of millions of people across the globe, by providing protection against malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
Housed in state-of-the-art and purpose-built facilities in the Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator Building LITE maintains a wide range of fully characterised mosquito strains, selected to incorporate the key resistance mechanisms circulating in field populations, maintained under stringent conditions to ensure consistency between tests.
