Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined ...

In 1920, Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting visited the University of Toronto to speak to the newly appointed head of the department of physiology, John J.R. Macleod. Macleod had studied glucose ...

Frederick Banting devised a concept for an injectable treatment for diabetes that would change the world of medicine. In 1921, working in facilities provided by J.J.R. Macleod at the University of ...