Frances Ashcroft

Frances Ashcroft

Frances Ashcroft MA PhD FRS is a British human geneticist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor in the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Trinity College and, with Kay Davies and Peter Donnelly is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function.

Her research group has an international reputation for work on insulin production and type II diabetes.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999. In 2007 she was awarded the Walter B. Cannon Award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Physiological Society [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award | date=2007-04-27 | publisher= | url =http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/aps-opp042607.php | work =EurekAlert | pages = | accessdate = 2007-04-27 | language = ] .

She was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Leicester on Friday 13th July, 2007.She is the author of the book "Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival"

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