Professor Frances Ashcroft Receives the Rolf Luft Award 2024

Professorial Fellow Dame Frances Ashcroft has been selected as recipient of the Rolf Luft Award 2024 for her contribution to diabetes research. 

The Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes Research and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden give an annual prize for outstanding research in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism. Awardees will receive the Rolf Luft Medal, a Diploma, an Honorarium and deliver a Lecture on their research. It is named in memory of Rolf Luft, who co-founded the Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes Research in 2004 with the aim of supporting diabetes research and awarding internationally recognized top researchers.

The Prize Lecture will be held by Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft at the Prize Ceremony in Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, in September 2024. 

Professor Ashcroft is a globally renowned physiologist whose research has significantly advanced our understanding of insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells in both health and disease. She discovered a key step in the process by which an increase in the blood sugar level after a meal leads to secretion of the hormone insulin. Her collaborative work with Professor Hattersley on neonatal diabetes enabled children born with this rare genetic form of diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy.