{{short description| British infectious diseases specialist (born 1957)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Janet Hemingway | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|FMedSci|FRCP|size=100%}} | image = Professor Janet Hemingway.jpg | image_size = | alt = Portrait of Janet Hemingway | caption = Professor Janet Hemingway | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|06|13}}<ref name="whoswho"> {{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Hemingway, Prof. Janet | id = U4000152 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000152 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}</ref> | birth_place = West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | death_place = | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * University of Sheffield (BSc) * London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (PhD)}} | workplaces = Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | thesis_title = Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245379 | thesis_year = 1981 | fields = {{Plainlist| *Vector Biology * Insecticide resistance}} | awards = * Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences<ref name=pnas/> * Manson Medal (2019) | website = {{URL|https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-janet-hemingway}} }} '''Janet Hemingway''' (born 13 June 1957)<ref name="whoswho"/><ref name=pnas>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1302101110 | title = Profile of Janet Hemingway | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume = 110 | issue = 14 | pages = 5276–5278 | year = 2013 | last1 = Griswold | first1 = Ann | pmid = 23440199 | pmc = 3619356 | bibcode = 2013PNAS..110.5276G | doi-access = free }}</ref> is a British infectious diseases specialist. She is the former director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), founding director of the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON) and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Janet Hemingway |url=https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-janet-hemingway |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=LSTM |language=en}}</ref> She is the president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Janet Hemingway announced as RSTMH President, alongside Medals and Awards ceremony {{!}} RSTMH |url=https://rstmh.org/news-blog/news/janet-hemingway-announced-as-rstmh-president-alongside-medals-and-awards-ceremony |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=rstmh.org}}</ref> She is the international director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Jizan, Saudi Arabia.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045z8wb Janet Hemingway, The Life Scientific 2014-06-10] BBC Radio 4</ref>
==Early life and education== Hemingway was born in a small mining town in West Yorkshire in 1957<ref name="whoswho"/> 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 did 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.<ref name=pnas/><ref name="phd">{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Janet|last=Hemingway|title=Genetics and biochemistry of insecticide resistance in Anophelines|publisher=London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London)|year=1981|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.245379}}|author-link=Janet Hemingway|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/31665498?style=html|website=jisc.ac.uk}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00209.x| pmid = 11029667| title = Identification of a point mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene of Kenyan Anopheles gambiae associated with resistance to DDT and pyrethroids| journal = Insect Molecular Biology| volume = 9| issue = 5| pages = 491–7| year = 2000| last1 = Ranson | first1 = H.| last2 = Jensen | first2 = B.| last3 = Vulule | first3 = J. M.| last4 = Wang | first4 = X.| last5 = Hemingway | first5 = J.| last6 = Collins | first6 = F. H.| s2cid = 25869705}}</ref>
==Research and career== Hemingway specialises in the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance, most notably the malaria-transmitting mosquito.<ref>{{Cite journal | pmid = 9230114 | year = 1997 | last1 = Vaughan | first1 = A | title = Co-amplification explains linkage disequilibrium of two mosquito esterase genes in insecticide-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus | journal = The Biochemical Journal | volume = 325 | pages = 359–65 | last2 = Hawkes | first2 = N | last3 = Hemingway | first3 = J | pmc = 1218568 | issue=2 | doi=10.1042/bj3250359 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | pmid = 12225925 | year = 2002 | last1 = McCarroll | first1 = L | title = Can insecticide resistance status affect parasite transmission in mosquitoes? | journal = Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | volume = 32 | issue = 10 | pages = 1345–51 | last2 = Hemingway | first2 = J | doi=10.1016/s0965-1748(02)00097-8 | bibcode = 2002IBMB...32.1345M }}</ref><ref name=scopus>{{Scopus|id=7005972853}}</ref>
She was the first to report the co-amplification of multiple genes on a single amplicon and demonstrate their impact on disease transmission.<ref name="rs" />
For her 2012 contributions to the prevention of tropical disease vectors, she received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE).<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Prof Janet Hemingway |url=http://www.ivcc.com/about/ivcc-team/prof-janet-hemingway |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531062615/http://www.ivcc.com/about/ivcc-team/prof-janet-hemingway |archive-date=31 May 2016 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
In 2019, she became the first woman to be awarded the Manson Medal (jointly with David Warrell).<ref name=":1" />
== Personal life== Hemingway runs a 15 acres farm in a remote corner of the Cheshire countryside in the north part of England. Her home is a converted Victorian farm built in 1840. "She shares it with five horses, two dogs, a cat and, for now, her daughter ... and her partner <ref name=":15">{{cite web |author=Andy Bounds |title=Janet Hemingway: working on Covid-19 — and her farm |url=https://www.ft.com/content/b8b013b6-9375-11ea-af4b-499244625ac4|publisher=Financial Times|date=12 June 2020 }}</ref>."
== Awards and honours == * Northern Leadership awards, 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/news/iicon-director-liverpool-school-of-tropical-medicines-professor-janet-hemingway |title=iiCon Director, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's Professor, Janet Hemingway, wins two awards at Northern Leadership Awards 2023 |author=<!--Not stated-->|date=April 3, 2023 |website=LSTMED |publisher=|access-date=December 12, 2024|quote=}}</ref> * Manson Medal, 2019.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/article/david-warrell-receives-2019-sir-patrick-manson-medal |title=David Warrell Receives 2019 Sir Patrick Manson Medal |last=Lewis |first= Riley |date=November 15, 2019 |website=St Cross College |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=December 12, 2024|quote=}}</ref> * 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Queen's Birthday Honour for the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |url=http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/2012/janet-hemingway-cbe |access-date=2013-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714200737/http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/press-releases/2012/janet-hemingway-cbe |archive-date=2014-07-14 }}</ref> * Elected a Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) in 2011<ref name="rs">{{cite web|title=Professor Janet Hemingway FRS|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/janet-hemingway-11605/|author=Anon|year=2011|access-date=2013-10-11}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}}</ref> * Elected a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2011<ref name="ORCID">{{cite web|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3200-7173 |title=Janet Hemingway |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=ORCID |publisher=|access-date=December 12, 2024|quote=}}</ref> * Elected a Foreign Associate to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2010<ref name="pnas" /> * Conferred Honorary Doctor of Science by University of Sheffield in 2009<ref name="ORCID" /> * Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008<ref name="ORCID" /> * Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2006.<ref name="ORCID" />
In 2019, the annual Hemingway Award (a joint award between the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and LSTM) was created to recognise Hemingway's achievements at LSTM.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iapb.org/news/caroline-harper-awarded-the-hemingway-award/ |title=Caroline Harper awarded the Hemingway Award |author=<!--Not stated-->|date=November 28, 2019|website=The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness |publisher=|access-date=December 12, 2024|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.rstmh.org/medals-awards/hemingway-award |title=Hemingway Award 2023 |author=<!--Not stated-->|date=|website=Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |publisher=|access-date=December 12, 2024|quote=}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} {{CC-notice|cc=by4|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/janet-hemingway-11605/}}
==External links==
* [https://www.infectioninnovation.com iiCON website]
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