Frances Ashcroft

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. In 2007 she was awarded the Walter B. Cannon Award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Physiological Society.

She was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Leicester on Friday 13th July, 2007.