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April 1, 2021
Carrie Boyce
Sir Frederick Banting (1891–1941)

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

April 1, 2021
Carrie Boyce
Charles H. Best (1899-1978)

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

April 1, 2021
Carrie Boyce
James Collip (1892-1965)

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

April 1, 2021
Carrie Boyce
J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935)

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

April 1, 2021
Carrie Boyce
Leonard Thompson (1908-1935)

The first person in the world to receive insulin as a treatment for diabetes.

Carrie Boyce
May 26, 2021

Dr. Amish Parikh

Carrie Boyce
May 26, 2021

President and Co-Founder of the Type 1 Diabetes Think Tank Network (T1DTTN).

Tagged: Current Research, Type 1

Comment
Carrie Boyce
May 26, 2021

Kimberley Hanson

Carrie Boyce
May 26, 2021

Executive Director of Diabetes Canada and an advocate for better diabetes care.

Tagged: Women in Science, Type 1, Current Research

Comment
Carrie Boyce
May 26, 2021

Dr. Charles de Mestral

Carrie Boyce
May 26, 2021

Specializes in amputation prevention research.

Tagged: Current Research

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Dr. Mladen Vranic (1930-2019)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Dr. Priscilla White (1900-1989)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Developed the field of obstetric diabetes.

Tagged: History, Women in Science

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Dr. George F. Cahill Jr. (1927-2012)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Ernest Sterzer (1925-1973)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Living with Diabetes, Type 1

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Elliott P. Joslin (1869–1962)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

One of the world’s first leading doctors specializing in diabetes treatment, affirming that diet, exercise and insulin were all crucial elements in managing the condition.

Tagged: History

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Paul Langerhans (1847-1888)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

George Minot (1885-1950)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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.

Tagged: History, Living with Diabetes, Type 1, Other

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Eva Saxl (1921-2002)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Living with Diabetes, Type 1

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

August and Marie Krogh

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Living with Diabetes

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

Dr. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)

Carrie Boyce
April 2, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Women in Science

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

Sir Frederick Banting (1891–1941)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Insulin Discovery

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

Charles H. Best (1899-1978)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Insulin Discovery

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

James Collip (1892-1965)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Insulin Discovery

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Insulin Discovery

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

Leonard Thompson (1908-1935)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

The first person in the world to receive insulin as a treatment for diabetes.

Tagged: History, Living with Diabetes

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

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

Tagged: History, Insulin Discovery, Women in Science

Comment
Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

Dr. Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)

Carrie Boyce
April 1, 2021

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.

Tagged: History, Insulin Discovery

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