Frances Ashcroft, Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. She received her PhD from Cambridge University and has been named a laureate of the Rolf Luft Award 2024 by the Rolf Luft Foundation. The nominating committee, which consists of board members of the Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes Research, justifies the award to Professor Aschroft: - Professor Dame Commander Frances Ashcroft has made the groundbreaking discovery that newborns with diabetes (neonatal diabetes) can be treated with tablets instead of insulin injections and thereby have an improved quality of life. This makes her a very worthy recipient of the Rolf Luft Award 2024, says the board of the Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes Research. Read more about Professor Aschcroft:
Professor Aschcroft will receive the Rolf Luft medal, diploma and a prize sum during a ceremony in September, where the foundation's 20th anniversary will also be celebrated.
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