Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway
CBE FRS FMedSci FRCP
Portrait of Janet Hemingway
Professor Janet Hemingway
Born (1957-06-13) 13 June 1957 (age 67)[2]
West Yorkshire
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine
ThesisGenetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines (1981)
Websitewww.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-janet-hemingway

Janet Hemingway (born 13 June 1957)[2][1] is a British infectious diseases specialist. She is the former director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and founding director of the Infection Innovation Consortium and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM.[3] She is currently the president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. [4]

Hemingway served as director of LSTM between 2001 and 2019 and during this time it was awarded Higher Education Institution Status & Degree Awarding powers.[5] For her 2012 contributions to the prevention of tropical disease vectors, she received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE).[6] She assumed the role of founding director of iiCON in 2020.[7]

Hemingway also works on advocacy and resource mobilization (and was previously chief executive officer) at the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,[6] and is international director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jizan, Saudi Arabia.[8]

Early life and education

Hemingway was born in a small mining town in West Yorkshire in 1957[2] 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.[1][9][10]

Research and career

Hemingway has worked on the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance, most notably the malaria-transmitting mosquito, for over 30 years.[11][12][13][14][15]

Hemingway is distinguished as the international authority on insecticide resistance in insect vectors of disease. She was first to report co-amplification of multiple genes on a single amplicon and demonstrate their impact on disease transmission.[16] Her studies on resistance management have transformed the use of insecticide by disease control programs.[16] Her promotion of evidence-based monitoring and evaluation strategies for insecticide resistance has guided and improved international policy on vector control strategies for onchocerciasis, malaria, and other vector borne diseases.[16] Her scientific approach to resistance analysis has contributed to a more comprehensive understanding of resistance, its impact and spread and has decreased its effect in increasing human mortality and morbidity.[16]

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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.
  2. ^ a b c 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.)
  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. ^ "Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Becomes Higher Education Institution". Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 24 July 2013. Archived from the original on 17 June 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Prof Janet Hemingway". Archived from the original on 31 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Infection Innovation Consortium". iiCON. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  8. ^ Janet Hemingway, The Life Scientific 2014-06-10 BBC Radio 4
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Hemingway, J.; Ranson, H. (2000). "Insecticide Resistance in Insect Vectors of Human Disease". Annual Review of Entomology. 45: 371–91. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.371. PMID 10761582.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ McCarroll, L; Hemingway, J (2002). "Can insecticide resistance status affect parasite transmission in mosquitoes?". Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 32 (10): 1345–51. doi:10.1016/s0965-1748(02)00097-8. PMID 12225925.
  14. ^ Janet Hemingway's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  15. ^ Hemingway, J.; Hawkes, N. J.; McCarroll, L.; Ranson, H. (2004). "The molecular basis of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes". Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 34 (7): 653–65. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2004.03.018. PMID 15242706.
  16. ^ a b c d e 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)
  17. ^ "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.

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