On Oct. 28, 1982, after only 5 months of review, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved…
On Jun. 22, 1981, ZymoGenetics was founded by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, and…
In 1979, Dr. Robert Sherwin and Dr. William Tamborlane from Yale University announced they had developed an insulin…
On Sept. 6, 1978, Genentech, the most successful of the new biotech start-up companies, announced that scientists at…
In August 1978, molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff was lead author of a paper demonstrating that bacteria could produce…
In 1978, University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) scientist Choh Hao Li discovers Beta-endorphin, a substance produced in the…
In 1978, The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes (BDC) was founded by Marvin Davis, former chair of…
On Apr. 1, 1976, physician and scientist C. Ronald Kahn from Harvard University announced he had discovered alterations…
In 1968, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered that insulin resistance is the principal physiologic characteristic of mild type-II diabetes…
On Oct. 19, 1956, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI) was founded by William B. Hutchinson, Sr.,…
On Dec. 22, 1941, the Insulin Amendment was passed by the U.S. Congress requiring the U.S. Food and…
On Dec. 1, 1941, in response to the emergency need for insulin standards, the USP formed an Insulin…
In 1923, Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. J. MacLeod win the Nobel Prize for their work isolating insulin.
In 1923, Eli Lilly and Company introduced Iletin, the world’s first commercially available insulin product.
In 1922, Elliott Joslin, at Harvard Medical Center, introduced insulin to the United States and founded Joslin Diabetes…
In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best who extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas’ of dogs and…