Diabetes

By 24nimrah

  • Thomas Willis

    Thomas Willis wrote a chapter describing diabetes and symptoms of the disease such as sweet urine.

  • Linking of Diabetes and Pancreatic Function

    Physician Oscar linked diabetes to pancreatic function through testing the effects of removing the pancreas from dogs whereby sugar appeared in the urine.

  • Discovery of Insulin

    A team in Toronto led by Banting and Macledd which also included Best and Collip discovered insulin as a key molecule that restored function

  • Insulin used to treat a patient

    Clinical application of insulin was used to treat a young boy who was dying of diabetes

  • Nobel Prize Award

    The Nobel Prize was awarded to Macledd and Banting for their discovery of insulin to treat diabetes

  • Insulin's Amino Acid Sequence Found

    Insulin was the first protein where the amino acid sequence was determined leading to the Nobel Prize award to Fred Sanger

  • Foundations of Synthetic Insulin Production

    Foundation for synthetic production of insulin was founded

  • Start of Synthetic Insulin Production

    Synthetic insulin production began and can be used to make different forms of insulin for various purposes