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Janet Hemingway
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Professor Janet Hemingway
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| Born | 13 June 1957 |
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| Institutions | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
| Thesis | Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines (1981) |
Janet Hemingway, born on June 13, 1957, is a British scientist. She is an expert in infectious diseases. These are illnesses that can spread, like malaria. She used to lead the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). She also helped create the Infection Innovation Consortium. Currently, she is the president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Professor Hemingway was the director of LSTM from 2001 to 2019. During her time, LSTM gained the power to award its own degrees. In 2012, she received a special award called the Commander of the British Empire (CBE). This was for her work in preventing diseases spread by insects. In 2020, she became the founding director of iiCON.
She also works to get support and money for the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC). This group is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is also an international director at a research center in Saudi Arabia.
Janet Hemingway's Early Life and Studies
Janet Hemingway was born in 1957 in a small mining town in West Yorkshire, England. Her parents owned a small corner shop. She studied zoology and genetics at the University of Sheffield. She earned a top degree there.
For her university project, she built the first mosquito insectary at the school. This is a place where insects are kept for study. Later, she was invited to get her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She earned her doctorate in just two years. Her research focused on how Anopheles mosquitoes become resistant to insecticides.
Fighting Diseases with Science
For over 30 years, Professor Hemingway has studied how insects become resistant to chemicals. She looks at the tiny parts inside insects that help them resist these chemicals. Her main focus has been on mosquitoes that spread malaria.
She is known around the world as a leading expert. She understands how insects that spread diseases, called insect vectors, become resistant to insecticides. Her work has shown how different genes in insects can work together to create resistance.
Her studies on how to manage this resistance have changed how insecticides are used. This helps control diseases. She has pushed for better ways to check if insecticides are still working. This has helped shape international plans for fighting diseases like onchocerciasis and malaria.
Awards and Special Recognitions
Janet Hemingway has received many awards for her important work:
- In 2023, she received the Northern Leadership award.
- She was the first woman to win the Manson Medal in 2019.
- In 2012, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). This was for her work in controlling diseases spread by insects.
- She was chosen as a Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) in 2011. This is a very high honor for scientists.
- In 2011, she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
- She was elected as a Foreign Associate to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
- The University of Sheffield gave her an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2009.
- She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008.
- In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).
In 2019, a new award was created in her honor. It is called the Hemingway Award. This award celebrates her achievements at LSTM.
