Janet Hemingway was born on 1957 and is a British infectious diseases specialist.
10 Facts About Janet Hemingway
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Janet Hemingway is the former Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and founding Director of Infection Innovation Consortium and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM.
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Janet Hemingway is current President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Janet Hemingway assumed the role of founding director of iiCON in 2020.
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Janet Hemingway was born in a small mining town in West Yorkshire in 1957 to parents who owned a corner shop.
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Janet Hemingway 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.
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Janet Hemingway was invited to pursue a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and within two years had obtained her doctorate on the biochemistry and genetics of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes.
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Janet Hemingway has over 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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Janet Hemingway is distinguished as the international authority on insecticide resistance in insect vectors of disease.
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Janet Hemingway was first to report co-amplification of multiple genes on a single amplicon and demonstrate their impact on disease transmission.