Frances Ashcroft
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| Born | 1952 | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Fields | Genetics, Physiology | ||
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| Alma mater | Cambridge University | ||
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Frances Ashcroft, FRS (born 1952), is a British geneticist and ion channel physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor in the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Trinity College and is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on insulin secretion, type II diabetes and neonatal diabetes.[2] Her work with Professor Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.[3] She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset.
Honours and awards
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.[4] In 2007 she was awarded the Walter B. Cannon Award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Physiological Society.[5] She was one of five 2012 winners of the L'oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.[6]
Fran Ashcroft gained her PhD from Cambridge in 1978..[7] She was awarded an honorary degrees of Doctor of the University from the Open University in 2003 and Doctor of Science from the University of Leicester on 13 July 2007.[8]
She delivered the Croonian Lecture at the Royal Society in 2013.[9]
Bibliography
Fran Ashcroft has now authored a few science and popular science books based on ion channel physiology:
"Ion Channels and Disease: Channelopathies" published in 1999 (Academic Press Inc.)
'Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival published by in 2000 (Harper Collins)
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body, published by W. W. Norton and Company in 2012.
Other
She appeared (as a diner) on MasterChef during the 2011 series, along with several other Fellows of the Royal Society.
References
- ↑ "Frances Ashcroft". The Life Scientific. 15 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hjqhr. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ↑ Ashcroft, F. M.; Harrison, D. E.; Ashcroft, S. J. H. (1984). "Glucose induces closure of single potassium channels in isolated rat pancreatic β-cells". Nature 312 (5993): 446–448. doi:10.1038/312446a0. PMID 6095103.
- ↑ Ashcroft, F. M. (1988). "Adenosine 5'-Triphosphate-Sensitive Potassium Channels". Annual Review of Neuroscience 11: 97–118. doi:10.1146/annurev.ne.11.030188.000525. PMID 2452599.
- ↑ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ↑ "Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award". EurekAlert. 27 April 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
- ↑ Ashcroft receives L'oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
- ↑ "Oration for Professor Frances Ashcroft by Professor Gordon Campbell. On the occasion of being awarded Doctor of Science summer 2007.". University of Leicester. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ↑ "Oration for Professor Frances Ashcroft by Professor Gordon Campbell. On the occasion of being awarded Doctor of Science summer 2007.". University of Leicester. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ↑ "Croonian Lecture". Royal Society. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
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