TRIBUTE TO LATE PROF. LUIS CUEVAS

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Bingham University and the Zankli Research Community is deeply saddened over the demise of Professor Luis Cuevas of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK, who died on the 2nd of January 2023.

Until his death, he was a great friend, an ally of Bingham University and was instrumental to the establishment of the Zankli Research Centre alongside the Late Prof. Lovett Lawson in 2015. Since the establishment of the Centre, Prof Luis continued to strengthen the collaboration between the University and LSTM which led to renewing of the Memoranda of Understanding between the two institutions.
He was a mentor to many, both in the University and in the TB Community in Nigeria spearheading better diagnostics to people with TB and other infectious diseases.
He was always willing to support new ideas as seen in of many the research works in epidemiology and the diagnosis of infectious diseases particularly Tuberculosis.
He will be sorely missed by the University Community and all that were impacted by his works all over the world.
Our deepest sympathy to LSTM family and may God console his immediate family on this great loss.



Signed
Prof. William Barnabas Qurix, OFR, FNIA
Vice-Chancellor

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  1. Athene pythonJune 29, 2026 at 10:58 PM

    LSTM stands for Long Short-Term Memory, a type of recurrent neural network (RNN) designed to learn patterns in sequential data while overcoming the limitations of traditional RNNs. It uses specialized memory cells and gates to retain important information over long periods, making it highly effective for tasks such as language translation, speech recognition, text prediction, sentiment analysis, and time-series forecasting. Because of its ability to capture long-term dependencies, LSTM remains one of the most widely used deep learning models for sequence-based applications.

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