{"id":17,"date":"2020-01-29T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/?p=17"},"modified":"2020-02-14T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:20:58","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/2020\/01\/29\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/files\/2020\/01\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><strong>Dame Frances Ashcroft<\/strong> DBE, FRS, FMedSci, is the Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Earning her BA, PhD, and ScD degrees from Cambridge, she primarily researches on ATP-sensitive potassium channels and how they contribute to insulin secretion. \u00a0She hopes to uncover how increases in blood glucose trigger the release of insulin from pancreatic beta-cells, the way this fails in type 2 diabetes, and what types of drugs may be able to reverse this flaw.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from writing this book, she has published the novel <em>The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body\u00a0<\/em>as well as the textbook <i>Ion Channels and Disease. \u00a0<\/i>In addition to being a research professor at Oxford, she also spearheads OXION, a rigorous\u00a0research program interested in the integration of both physiology and ion channels.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the author, check out these links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpag.ox.ac.uk\/team\/frances-ashcroft\">https:\/\/www.dpag.ox.ac.uk\/team\/frances-ashcroft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.ox.ac.uk\/people\/profiles\/frances-ashcroft\/\">https:\/\/www.trinity.ox.ac.uk\/people\/profiles\/frances-ashcroft\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiology.org\/speakers\/frances-ashcroft\/\">https:\/\/www.ibiology.org\/speakers\/frances-ashcroft\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" role=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/\">Back to Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Frances Ashcroft DBE, FRS, FMedSci, is the Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Earning her BA, PhD, and ScD degrees from Cambridge, she primarily researches on ATP-sensitive potassium channels and how they contribute to insulin secretion. \u00a0She hopes to uncover how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/2020\/01\/29\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405711],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-pressure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/isabel-snee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}