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 1999. In 2007 she was awarded the Walter B. Cannon Award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Physiological Society[1].
She was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Leicester on Friday 13th July, 2007.
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- ^ "Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award", EurekAlert, April 27 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
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