Frederick Banting was an Ontario doctor and medical practitioner who made a groundbreaking discovery in 1921: the treatment for diabetes. At this time, over a million people in North America suffered from diabetes, but no one knew what caused the disease or how to treat it. At the University of Toronto, alongside graduate student Charles Best, Banting isolated the hormone insulin from the pancreas of a dog. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his findings, which have saved countless lives worldwide. The discovery of insulin was the first of many important breakthroughs for diabetes treatment, and remains a major landmark in the history of medical research in Canada.
