Professor Frances Platt FRS

Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Prof. Frances Platt obtained her BSc from Imperial College London (Zoology) and her PhD from the University of Bath, UK. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, USA. She was a Lister Institute Senior Research Fellow and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. Her main research interests include the biology and pathobiology of glycosphingolipids and lysosomal disorders. Her research led to the development of miglustat for the treatment of glycosphingolipid lysosomal storage diseases. She was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011 and appointed Head of the Department of Pharmacology in 2020. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2025.