Janet Storm is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions. She worked as research technician in The Netherlands before moving to the UK to work at the University of Oxford, where she also completed her part-time PhD studying the transporter P-glycoprotein. Her first postdoctoral position was at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology at the University of Glasgow, investigating the metabolism of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite causing malaria. She joined LSTM in 2012 to study the role of parasite-host interactions in the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria and was based at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme until late 2015. In 2022 she joined CSRI, researching the pathology of snakebite envenoming.

Janet’s current research focuses on local and systemic pathology in snakebite envenoming. She investigates the contribution of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETosis) on venom-induced tissue destruction around the bite site and how venom toxins affect vascular endothelium, leading to haemorrhages. By identifying molecular mechanisms, new treatments for snakebite can be developed.