Physician specializing in obesity treatment and management, and by extension type 2 diabetes.

Researcher working to reverse Type 2 diabetes.

Patient advocate working to make life with Type 1 diabetes easier for those who live with it using technology.

One of Canada’s most recognized diabetes nurse researchers.

Learn about Dr. Krishana Sankar, scientist and creator of the #150mins social media campaign.

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.

Learn about the man who successfully demonstrated the efficacy of insulin before the Toronto team!

Learn more about the “Grand Old Man” of Canada.

Research Director of the Joslin Diabetes Centre changing our understanding of diabetes and insulin resistance.

Developing a precision medicine technique with the potential to cure type 1 diabetes.

A passionate advocate for patients living with diabetes from underserved communities.

A a rising Indigenous diabetes researcher.

Discover endocrinologist Dr. Alice Cheng’s approach to understanding sexual health and diabetes.