Janet Hemingway
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Hemingway at the Xth European Congress of Entomology, York, 2014
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June 13, 1957 West Yorkshire |
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| Institutions | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
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| Thesis | Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines (1981) |
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Website http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/research/departments/staff-profiles/janet-hemingway |
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Janet Hemingway, CBE FRSFMedSci FRCP (born 1957) is a British parasitologist, Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). She 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), and is International Director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jizan, Saudi Arabia. She is "the youngest woman to ever to become a full professor in the UK".
Hemingway was born in a small mining town in West Yorkshire in 1957 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.
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.
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