Janet Hemingway

British infectious diseases specialist (born 1957)

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Janet Hemingway

CBE FRS FMedSci FRCP

Professor Janet Hemingway

Born|  (1957-06-13) 13 June 1957 (age 67)[2]

West Yorkshire

Alma mater|

* University of Sheffield (BSc)
* London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (PhD)

Awards|

* Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences[1]
* Manson Medal (2019)

Scientific career
Fields|

* Vector Biology
* Insecticide resistance

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)[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 the international director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jizan, Saudi Arabia.[8]

## Early life and education

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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

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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 the first to report the co-amplification of multiple genes on a single amplicon and demonstrate their impact on disease transmission.[16] Her studies on resistance management have changed the use of insecticide in disease control programs.[16] Her promotion of evidence-based monitoring and evaluation strategies for insecticide resistance has informed international policy on vector control strategies for onchocerciasis, malaria, and other vector-borne diseases.[16]

### Awards and honours

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* Northern Leadership awards, 2023[17]
* The first woman to be awarded the Manson Medal in 2019.[18]

* Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the control of tropical disease vectors in the Queen's 2012 Birthday Honours.[19]
* Elected a Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) in 2011[16]
* Elected a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2011[20]
* Elected a Foreign Associate to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2010[1]
* Conferred Honorary Doctor of Science by University of Sheffield in 2009[20]
* Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008[20]
* Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2006.[20]

In 2019, the annual Hemingway Award (a joint award between RSTMH and LSTM) was created to recognize Hemingway’s achievements at LSTM.[21][22]

## References

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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 23440199.5276-5278&rft.date=2013&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619356#id-name=PMC&rft_id=info:pmid/23440199&rft_id=info:doi/10.1073/pnas.1302101110&rft_id=info:bibcode/2013PNAS..110.5276G&rft.aulast=Griswold&rft.aufirst=Ann&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619356&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Janet+Hemingway" class="Z3988">
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 25869705.491-7&rft.date=2000&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25869705#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:pmid/11029667&rft_id=info:doi/10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00209.x&rft.aulast=Ranson&rft.aufirst=H.&rft.au=Jensen,+B.&rft.au=Vulule,+J.+M.&rft.au=Wang,+X.&rft.au=Hemingway,+J.&rft.au=Collins,+F.+H.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Janet+Hemingway" class="Z3988">
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 10761582.371-91&rft.date=2000&rft_id=info:doi/10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.371&rft_id=info:pmid/10761582&rft.aulast=Hemingway&rft.aufirst=J.&rft.au=Ranson,+H.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Janet+Hemingway" class="Z3988">
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 9230114.359-65&rft.date=1997&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1218568#id-name=PMC&rft_id=info:pmid/9230114&rft_id=info:doi/10.1042/bj3250359&rft.aulast=Vaughan&rft.aufirst=A&rft.au=Hawkes,+N&rft.au=Hemingway,+J&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1218568&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Janet+Hemingway" class="Z3988">
13. ^ 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 12225925.1345-51&rft.date=2002&rft_id=info:pmid/12225925&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/s0965-1748(02)00097-8&rft_id=info:bibcode/2002IBMB...32.1345M&rft.aulast=McCarroll&rft.aufirst=L&rft.au=Hemingway,+J&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Janet+Hemingway" class="Z3988">
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\. Bibcode:2004IBMB...34..653H. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2004.03.018. PMID 15242706.653-65&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info:pmid/15242706&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/j.ibmb.2004.03.018&rft_id=info:bibcode/2004IBMB...34..653H&rft.aulast=Hemingway&rft.aufirst=J.&rft.au=Hawkes,+N.+J.&rft.au=McCarroll,+L.&rft.au=Ranson,+H.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Janet+Hemingway" class="Z3988">
16. ^ a b c d 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. ^ "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.
18. ^ Lewis, Riley (15 November 2019). "David Warrell Receives 2019 Sir Patrick Manson Medal". St Cross College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
19. ^ "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.
20. ^ a b c d "Janet Hemingway". ORCID. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
21. ^ "Caroline Harper awarded the Hemingway Award". The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
22. ^ "Hemingway Award 2023". Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Retrieved 12 December 2024.

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