Frances Ashcroft

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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 1986.