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Brief Insulin History Diabetes has been recognized as a distinct medical condition for at least 3,500 years, but its cause was a mystery until early last century. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas. It was isolated in 1921-22 at the University of Toronto. The scientists involved in the research were Dr. Fredrick Banting, Charles Best (a medical student at the time of the discovery), Professor J. J. R. Macleod and Dr. James Collip. On June 3, 1934, Dr Frederick Banting the co-inventor of insulin was knighted for his medical discovery In January, 1922, a diabetic teenager in a Toronto hospital named Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an injection of insulin. He improved dramatically, and the news about insulin spread around the world like wildfire. (For their work, Banting and Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine the very next year, in 1923. Banting shared his part of the prize money with Best, and Macleod shared his with Collip.)
Within weeks leaders came to Toronto to see for themselves if the rumors were true and to learn how to make the insulin, both from Connaught in Toronto and from Eli Lilly, of Indianapolis, Indiana, with whom the researches collaborated to produce insulin in the United States and Latin America. While Lilly was successful in manufacturing insulin, the Toronto team continued to struggle and by mid-July 1922 there was a severe shortage in Toronto. Lilly shipped the product and by the end of 1923, insulin was being produced commercially and used to treat diabetes in most western countries. August Krogh of Denmark, a Nobel Prize winner for his research on capillaries, was in the US to talk about his work, but found that everyone was talking about insulin. When he returned home he laid the foundation for the Danish insulin manufacturing industry and Nordisk Insulin Company. This was a non-profit-making company which together with the Novo Company was responsible for making Denmark the main insulin producing company outside of the US. This seems nothing to do with your investment. Maybe it is not true, at least, it shows you the history of some giant companies related to Insulin.
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