Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway CBE FRS FMedSci FRCP[3] (born 1957)[1][2] is a British entomologist, Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). She also works on advocacy and resource mobilisation (and was previously chief executive officer) at the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation),[4] and is International Director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jizan, Saudi Arabia.[5] She is "the youngest woman to ever to become a full professor in the UK".[5]

Janet Hemingway

CBE FRS FMedSci FRCP
Hemingway at the Xth European Congress of Entomology, York, 2014
Born (1957-06-13) 13 June 1957[1]
West Yorkshire
Alma mater
AwardsForeign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences[2]
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

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 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 was invited to pursue a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and within two years had obtained her doctorate on the biochemistry and genetics of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes.[2][6][7]

Research and career

Hemingway has 30 years of experience working on the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance, most notably the malaria-transmitting mosquito.[8][9][10][11][12]

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.[3] Her studies on resistance management have transformed the use of insecticide by disease control programmes.[3] 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.[3] Her rigorous scientific approach to resistance analysis has contributed to a greater understanding of resistance, its impact and spread and has minimised its effect in increasing human mortality and morbidity.[3]

Awards and honours

References
  1. Anon (2017). "Hemingway, Prof. Janet". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000152. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. 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. 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)
  4. "Prof Janet Hemingway". Archived from the original on 31 May 2016.
  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. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Janet Hemingway's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  12. 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.
  13. "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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