Frances Ashcroft
✓ Source-basedstableBritish geneticist and physiologist
United KingdomBorn 1952 · age 74Dame 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.
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James Bertram CollipAlso won Banting Medal
Chris DobsonAlso won Honorary member of the British Biophysical Society
Molly StevensAlso won G L Brown Prize Lecture
Randolph QuirkAlso won honorary doctor of the University of LeicesterMichael BerridgeAlso won Annual Review Prize Lecture
Wolfgang BaumeisterAlso won Feldberg Foundation PrizeAbout this person
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.
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