A Hundred Years of Insulin Innovation: When Science Meets Technology

The story of insulin development is a remarkable example of what can be accomplished in medicine when academic science meets translational biotechnology. The foundation was laid 100 years ago this year with the discovery of insulin in Toronto in 1921, prompting a Nobel Prize in 1923. The discovery made by Banting and Best (1) was so spectacular and of such importance for many people that it immediately led to collaboration with industry...