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