His work formed the basis for our understanding of hunger and fasting in health, obesity and diabetes.

Discover the work of Dr. Charles Best’s final post-doctoral fellow.

The scientist behind the purification of insulin.

American Civil War veteran, inventor, chemist, philanthropist and founder of Eli Lilly & Co. - one of the first companies to provide a mass-produced insulin product for the treatment of diabetes.

This couple brought insulin to people living with diabetes in Nordic countries and founded international pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.

One woman’s mission to access insulin during World War II.

Without the discovery of insulin in 1921, American physician and diabetic George Minot would likely not have lived to discover a treatment for pernicious anemia.

The remarkable tale of the only known case of a Holocaust survivor living with type I diabetes.

An American medical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the radioimmunoassay for insulin in 1977.

Developed the field of obstetric diabetes.

Dr. Elliot Joslin was a scientist and educator at heart, who always sought to empower people living with diabetes.

The story of the man who discovered the Islets of Langerhans.

Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.

American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin.

Scottish biochemist and physiologist who contributed to the discovery and isolation of insulin.

Discover the life of Dorothy Hodgkin, whose tireless work revealed the exact structure of insulin using X-ray crystallography.

Canadian biochemist who was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin.

French pharmacist, hygienist and author of the first known textbook on diabetes.

Frederick Banting’s only son.

A British molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1958 for determining the primary structure of insulin; the first protein to have its sequence determined.