Research and Knowledge Transfer Public Event Key Note Speaker: Festival Professor Janet Hemingway Bugs Bites and Parasites Tuesday 18:00 - 19:30 th (Refreshments & 9 APRIL Networking 2019 18:00 – 18:30)

Beswick CBE017, University of Chester, About Professor Janet Hemingway Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ Janet Hemingway is Professor of Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She is also a Senior Overview Technical Advisor on Neglected Tropical Diseases for the Bill and How do you get the World’s richest man to engage Melinda Gates Foundation, and with your research and part with US$125M to has 38 years’ experience working on the biochemistry and molecular support your proposed Agenda? Prof. Hemingway biology of specific enzyme systems will describe the journey from concept to associated with xenobiotic resistance. She has been PI on projects in excess of £60 million including the Bill establishing a long term partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Innovative Vector Control and Melinda Gates Foundation and others to Consortium. She holds a BSc in Genetics and Zoology from Sheffield University; a PhD on ‘The biochemistry and genetics deliver new tools, technologies and approaches to of resistance in ’ from the University of control in Africa, and visceral leishmaniasis London (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). She has published over 250 scientific papers in peer reviewed in India. This initiative, started in 2005 has journals. Professor Hemingway was appointed the Director of already saved over 600,000 lives of infants and is LSTM in 2001 and stepped down on 1st January 2019, having overseen a period of exceptional growth of the organisation. contributing to the eradication of diseases that This included the awarding of Higher Educational Institution blight the lives of hundreds of millions of people Status & Degree Awarding powers to LSTM. This new status will facilitate expansion of both the research and teaching activities worldwide. While much progress has been made going forward. Professor Hemingway is an honorary graduate of the University of Chester, receiving a DSc (hon) in 2016 Professor there is still much to be done and Prof. Hemingway Hemingway was awarded the Commander of the British Empire will highlight key areas going forward. (CBE) for services to the Control of Tropical Disease Vectors 2012.

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