Janet Hemingway
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- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences[2]
- Manson Medal (2019)
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| Born | 13 June 1957[1] |
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| Institutions | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
| Thesis | Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines (1981) |
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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 is 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]
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 honours 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 did 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 specialises 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]
In 2019, she became the first woman to be awarded the Manson Medal (jointly with David Warrell).[13]
Personal life
Hemingway runs a 15 acres farm in a remote corner of the Cheshire countryside in the north part of England. Her home is a converted Victorian farm built in 1840. "She shares it with five horses, two dogs, a cat and, for now, her daughter ... and her partner [14]."
