Frances Ashcroft | |
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| Born | Frances Mary Ashcroft 15 February 1952[2] |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Talbot Heath School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Awards | UNESCO award (2012) Croonian Lecture (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physiology[1] |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Calcium electrogenesis in insect muscle (1978) |
| Website | www |
Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft DBE FRS FMedSci (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist.[4][1][5] 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.[6][7] Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.[8][9][4][10]
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Education
Ashcroft was educated at Talbot Heath School and the University of Cambridge where she was awarded a degree in Natural Sciences followed by a PhD in zoology in 1978.[11][12]
Career and research
Ashcroft then did postdoctoral research at the University of Leicester and the University of California at Los Angeles.[13] Ashcroft is a director of Oxion: Ion Channels and Disease Initiative, a research and training programme on integrative ion channel research, funded by the Wellcome Trust.[14]
Ashcroft's research focuses on ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP)channels and their role in insulin secretion. Ashcroft is working towards explaining how a rise in the blood glucose concentration stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreatic beta-cells, what goes wrong with this process in type 2 diabetes, and how drugs used to treat this condition exert their beneficial effects.[15] Ashcroft has authored a few science and popular science books based on ion channel physiology:
- Ion Channels and Disease: Channelopathies on channelopathic diseases[16]
- Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival[17]
- The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body[18]
Her work has helped people with neonatal diabetes, a very rare disease, switch from insulin injections to oral drug therapy.[1]
Honours and awards
Ashcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.[19] In 2007 Ashcroft was awarded the Walter B. Cannon Award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Physiological Society.[20] She was one of five 2012 winners of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.[21]
Ashcroft 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.[12]
Ashcroft was awarded the Croonian Lecture by the Royal Society in 2013.[22]
In the 2015 Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) 'for services to Medical Science and the Public Understanding of Science'.[23] She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1999.[24]
A. S. Byatt's novel A Whistling Woman is half dedicated to Ashcroft.[25]
Personal life
Ashcroft appeared (as a diner) on MasterChef during the 2011 series,[citation needed] along with several other Fellows of the Royal Society.
References
- ^ a b c "Women in Physiology" (PDF). Static.physoc.org. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ "Ashcroft, Prof. Frances Mary". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. 2014. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5819. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Frances Ashcroft". The Life Scientific. 15 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b Wray, Susan; Tansey, Elizabeth, eds. (2015). Women physiologists : centenary celebrations and beyond (PDF). London: The Physiological Society. ISBN 9780993341007. OCLC 922032986.
- ^ Frances Ashcroft publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ 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. Bibcode:1984Natur.312..446A. doi:10.1038/312446a0. PMID 6095103. S2CID 4340710.
- ^ Ashcroft, F. M.; Rorsman, P. (1989). "Electrophysiology of the pancreatic β-cell". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 54 (2): 87–143. doi:10.1016/0079-6107(89)90013-8. PMID 2484976.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Frances Ashcroft talks to ReAgent about career advice for scientists". reagent.co.uk. 11 June 2014.
- ^ Ashcroft, Frances M.; Harrison, Donna E.; Ashcroft, Stephen J. H. (1984). "Glucose induces closure of single potassium channels in isolated rat pancreatic β-cells". Nature. 312 (5993): 446–448. Bibcode:1984Natur.312..446A. doi:10.1038/312446a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 6095103. S2CID 4340710.
- ^ Ashcroft, Frances Mary (1978). Calcium electrogenesis in insect muscle. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500372918. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.448200.
- ^ a b "Oration for Professor Frances Ashcroft by Professor Gordon Campbell. On the occasion of being awarded Doctor of Science summer 2007". le.ac.uk. University of Leicester. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ^ "Frances Ashcroft, Professorial Fellow in Physiology". Trinity College, University of Oxford. 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Welcome to Oxion". Oxion: Ion Channels and Disease Initiative, Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and MRC Hartwell. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Frances Ashcroft — GLAXOSMITHKLINE Royal Society Professor". Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford. 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ 1999, Academic Press, ISBN 0120653109
- ^ 2000, HarperCollins, ISBN 0141046538
- ^ 2012, W. W. Norton and Company, ISBN 0006551254
- ^ Anon (1999). "Dame Frances Ashcroft DBE FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 6 July 2012. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- ^ "Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award" (Press release). American Physiological Society. 27 April 2007. Retrieved 22 March 2015 – via EurekAlert!.
- ^ "Ashcroft receives L'oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science". ox.ac.uk. 8 November 2011. Archived from the original on 8 November 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ "Croonian Lecture—List of lecturers: 21st century". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ "No. 61256". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2015. p. B8.
- ^ "Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft - The Academy of Medical Sciences". Acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ Newman, Jenny; Friel, James (2003). "An interview with A. S. Byatt". Cerles Review. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
I remember sitting at high table with my friend, Professor Frances Ashcroft, to whom A Whistling Woman is half dedicated.
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