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Frances Ashcroft

British geneticist and physiologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Born 1952 · age 74

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.

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2022Banting MedalAward2015Dame Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward2013Croonian Medal and LectureAward2012L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in ScienceAward2010Feldberg Foundation PrizeAward2007Honorary Doctor of the University of LeicesterAward2003Annual Review Prize LectureAwardHonorary DoctorateAward1999Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1996G L Brown Prize LectureAward1952Born15 February 1952

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Awards

Banting Medal2022

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire2015

Croonian Medal and Lecture2013

L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science2012

Feldberg Foundation Prize2010

Honorary Doctor of the University of Leicester2007

Annual Review Prize Lecture2003

Honorary Doctorate2003

Fellow of the Royal Society1999

G L Brown Prize Lecture1996

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

Honorary member of the British Biophysical Society

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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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United Kingdom

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Living

Dates

Born 1952 · age 74

The same award as Frances

Jonathan AshmoreBoth received G L Brown Prize Lecture