Banting insulin biography of rory
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Bringing Light to the Dark Side of Insulin
I think it's remarkable that only a few months after Banting introduced insulin to the world of diabetes, on the heels of one of medicine's greatest discoveries, Elliot Joslin wrote, “insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but a potent preparation alike . . . for evil and for good.” Today, 85 years later, with all the advances in insulin therapy, there is still a dark side to this potent preparation, and it is hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is the major barrier preventing insulin from achieving its full, therapeutic promise.
My story begins 30 years ago. Bill Tamborlane came to me with a portable, battery-powered pump being used in pediatrics to infuse the iron-chelating drug desferrioxamine continuously via the subcutaneous route into children with thalassemia major. He hoped to use it to treat children with glycogen storage disease, a study we never performed. This relatively small pump, the Autosyringe Model AS2C, was at that time relatively
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Celebrating 100 years of insulin
Work in the University of Toronto (ON, Canada) during 1921 culminated in January 1922, when Leonard Thompson received his first injection of a purified pancreatic extract containing insulin. This remarkable event built on many years of ground-breaking scientific work by a number of individuals around the world, including Claude Bernard, Paul Langerhans, Oskar Minkowski, Joseph von Mering, Eugene Opie, Georg Ludwig Zülzer and Nicolas Paulesco, to name but a few. The unique achievements of the Toronto team, collaborating with industry, includes the speed at which they were able to purify, test and produce insulin in sufficient quantities for it to become a viable treatment for diabetes. These events have been described eloquently by Michael Bliss in his book: The Discovery of Insulin [1]. The immediate and long-term consequences of insulin therapy are life-changing for individuals with diabetes and continue to stimulate scientific research and lear
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Professor Rury Holman wins 2024 ADA Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement
The diligent work of these passionate professionals fryst vatten moving us closer to a world free of diabetes. Their contributions to research, prevention, and treatment are creating lasting change and improving the lives of people affected bygd diabetes.- Charles Henderson, ledare Executive Officer of the American Diabetes Association
Professor Rury R. Holman, Mb.ChB., FRCP (Lond.), FMedSci is the recipient of the 2024 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, which recognises significant long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment, or prevention of diabetes.
Professor Holman confirmed that declining beta-cell function, as opposed to insulin resistance, was the main driver for type 2 diabetes.
To facilitate self-care for people with diabetes, he co-invented the earliest automated finger-pricker and automated insulin pen.
He co-led the UK Prospective Diabetes which first demonstrated intensive blood