Janet Hemingway

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Janet Hemingway
CBE FRS FMedSci FRCP
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Professor Janet Hemingway
Born (1957-06-13) 13 June 1957 (age 67) [1]
West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
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Institutions Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Thesis Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines  (1981)
Website www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-janet-hemingway

Janet Hemingway (born 13 June 1957) [1] [2] is a British infectious diseases specialist. She is the former director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), founding director of the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON) and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM. [3] She currently serves as the president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. [4] She is the international director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. [5]

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Early life and education

Hemingway was born in a small mining town in West Yorkshire in 1957 [1] to parents who owned a corner shop. She obtained a first-class honors degree in zoology and genetics from the University of Sheffield, where she set up the university's first mosquito insectary as part of her thesis project. She was invited to pursue a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and obtained her doctorate after two years of studying the biochemistry and genetics of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes. [2] [6] [7]

Research and career

Hemingway specializes in the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance, most notably the malaria-transmitting mosquito. [8] [9] [10]

She was the first to report the co-amplification of multiple genes on a single amplicon and demonstrate their impact on disease transmission. [11]

For her 2012 contributions to the prevention of tropical disease vectors, she received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE). [12]

She assumed the role of founding director of iiCON in 2020. [13]

In 2019, she became the first woman to be awarded the Manson Medal (jointly with David Warrell). [14]

Awards and honours

In 2019, the annual Hemingway Award (a joint award between the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and LSTM) was created to recognise Hemingway’s achievements at LSTM. [18] [19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Anon (2017). "Hemingway, Prof. Janet" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000152.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Griswold, Ann (2013). "Profile of Janet Hemingway". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 110 (14): 5276–5278. Bibcode:2013PNAS..110.5276G. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1302101110 . PMC   3619356 . PMID   23440199.
  3. ↑ "Professor Janet Hemingway". LSTM. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Janet Hemingway announced as RSTMH President, alongside Medals and Awards ceremony | RSTMH". rstmh.org. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  5. ↑ Janet Hemingway, The Life Scientific 2014-06-10 BBC Radio 4
  6. ↑ Hemingway, Janet (1981). Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London). EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.245379.
  7. ↑ Ranson, H.; Jensen, B.; Vulule, J. M.; Wang, X.; Hemingway, J.; Collins, F. H. (2000). "Identification of a point mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene of Kenyan Anopheles gambiae associated with resistance to DDT and pyrethroids". Insect Molecular Biology. 9 (5): 491–7. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00209.x. PMID   11029667. S2CID   25869705.
  8. ↑ Vaughan, A; Hawkes, N; Hemingway, J (1997). "Co-amplification explains linkage disequilibrium of two mosquito esterase genes in insecticide-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus". The Biochemical Journal. 325 (2): 359–65. doi:10.1042/bj3250359. PMC   1218568 . PMID   9230114.
  9. ↑ McCarroll, L; Hemingway, J (2002). "Can insecticide resistance status affect parasite transmission in mosquitoes?". Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 32 (10): 1345–51. Bibcode:2002IBMB...32.1345M. doi:10.1016/s0965-1748(02)00097-8. PMID   12225925.
  10. ↑ Janet Hemingway's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  11. 1 2 Anon (2011). "Professor Janet Hemingway FRS" . Retrieved 11 October 2013. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  12. ↑ "Prof Janet Hemingway". Archived from the original on 31 May 2016.
  13. ↑ "Infection Innovation Consortium". iiCON. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  14. 1 2 Lewis, Riley (15 November 2019). "David Warrell Receives 2019 Sir Patrick Manson Medal". St Cross College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  15. ↑ "iiCon Director, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's Professor, Janet Hemingway, wins two awards at Northern Leadership Awards 2023". LSTMED. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  16. ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honour for the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  17. 1 2 3 4 "Janet Hemingway". ORCID. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  18. ↑ "Caroline Harper awarded the Hemingway Award". The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  19. ↑ "Hemingway Award 2023". Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Retrieved 12 December 2024.

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