Frances Ashcroft
British geneticist and physiologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft DBE FRS FMedSci (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist.[4][2][5] 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.[6][7] Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.[8][9][4][10]
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Born | Frances Mary Ashcroft (1952-02-15) 15 February 1952 (age 72)[1] |
Nationality | British |
Education | Talbot Heath School |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
Awards | UNESCO award (2012) Croonian Lecture (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physiology[2] |
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Thesis | Calcium electrogenesis in insect muscle (1978) |
Website | www |
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