| Intro | British parasitologist |
| Is | Parasitologist |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type | Biology |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 13 June 1957, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom |
| Age: | 63 years |
| Star sign | Gemini |
Janet Hemingway, CBE FRS FMedSci 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”.
Early life and education
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.
Research
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.
Awards and honours
- 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.
- Inaugurated as a Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) in 2011.
- Elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2011.
- Elected as a Foreign Associate to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
- Conferred Honorary Doctor of Science by University of Sheffield in 2009.
- Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008.
- Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2006.
Her nomination for the Royal Society reads