# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-ashcroft
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:07:58.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-ashcroft"
name: "Frances Ashcroft"
slug: "frances-ashcroft"
description: "Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft is a British ion channel physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on insulin secretion, type II diabetes and neonatal diabetes. Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy."
tagline: "British geneticist and physiologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1952-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.612708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فرانسيس أشكروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frances Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frances Ashcroft"
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    title: "Frances Ashcroft"
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    title: "弗朗西丝·阿什克罗夫特"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump