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Professor Janet Hemingway, CBE, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, FRCP, FRES (Hon), FAAM, is Professor of Insect Molecular Biology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). She is Director of LSTM, Chief Executive Officer of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and International Director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jezan, Saudi Arabia.

Research
Professor Hemingway initially trained as a geneticist and has 30 years of experience working on the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance. She is distinguished as an international authority on insecticide resistance in insect vectors of disease, most notably the malaria-transmitting mosquito. She was the first to report co-amplification of multiple genes on a single amplicon, and to demonstrate their impact on disease transmission. Her studies on resistance management have transformed the use of insecticides by disease control programmes. Her promotion of evidence-based monitoring and evaluation strategies for insecticide resistance has guided and improved international policy on vector control strategies for Onchocerciasis, Malaria and other vector-borne diseases. Her rigorous scientific approach to resistance analysis has contributed to a greater understanding of insecticide resistance, its impact and its spread through populations of insect vectors.

Professor Hemingway's research is based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the oldest school of tropical medicine in the world. The school has 360 staff based in Liverpool, Malawi and several other tropical locations. Upon receiving her CBE, Hemingway commented: “I am delighted to receive this honour, which also reflects upon the great teams of people I have worked with over the years, as things are never down to one individual."

Awards and Honours

 * Awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the Control of Tropical Disease Vectors in 2012.
 * Inaugurated as a Fellow of The Royal Society in 2011.
 * Elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2011.
 * Elected as a Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Scientists, USA, in 2010.
 * Conferred Honorary Doctor of Science by Sheffield University in 2009.
 * Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008.
 * Inaugurated as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2006.