Frances Ashcroft, Date of Birth

Frances Ashcroft

British geneticist and physiologist

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1952

Profession: physiologist, geneticist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft, (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist.
She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford.
She is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford 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.
Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.