Dame Frances M. Ashcroft#


Dame Frances M. Ashcroft
Membership Number:2087
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Elected:2001
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/frances-ashcroft
https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-dame-frances-ashcroft




Present and Previous Positions
  • Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford
  • Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford
  • Director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function

Fields of Scholarship
  • Neonatal diabetes
  • Insulin secretion
  • Type II diabetes

Honours and Awards
  • 2023 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
  • 2015 Appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) 'for services to Medical Science and the Public Understanding of Science' in the 2015 Birthday Honours
  • 2013 Croonian Lecture by the Royal Society
  • 2012 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
  • 2007 Walter B. Cannon Award by the American Physiological Society
  • 2003 Honorary degrees of Doctor of the University from the Open University
  • 1999 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
  • 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society


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