Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft was born on 1952 and is a British ion channel physiologist.
17 Facts About Frances Ashcroft
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Frances Ashcroft is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford.
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Frances Ashcroft is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function.
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Frances Ashcroft's work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.
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Frances Ashcroft then did postdoctoral research at the University of Leicester and the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Frances Ashcroft is a director of Oxion: Ion Channels and Disease Initiative, a research and training programme on integrative ion channel research, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Frances Ashcroft's research focuses on ATP-sensitive potassium channels and their role in insulin secretion.
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Frances Ashcroft is working towards explaining how a rise in the blood glucose concentration stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreatic beta-cells, what goes wrong with this process in type 2 diabetes, and how drugs used to treat this condition exert their beneficial effects.
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Frances Ashcroft has authored a few science and popular science books based on ion channel physiology:.
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Frances Ashcroft's work has helped people with neonatal diabetes, a very rare disease, switch from insulin injections to oral drug therapy.
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Frances Ashcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.
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In 2007 Ashcroft was awarded the Walter B Cannon Award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Physiological Society.
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Frances Ashcroft was one of five 2012 winners of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.
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Frances Ashcroft was awarded an honorary degrees of Doctor of the University from the Open University in 2003 and Doctor of Science from the University of Leicester on 13 July 2007.
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Frances Ashcroft was awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society in 2013.
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Frances Ashcroft was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999.
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Frances Ashcroft appeared on MasterChef during the 2011 series, along with several other Fellows of the Royal Society.