Born: November 14, 1891, Alliston, Ontario
Died: February 21, 1941
Education: M.D. - University of Toronto

Frederick Grant Banting completed his medical studies at the University of Toronto and established a surgical practice in London, Ontario. He supplemented his income by working as a medical demonstrator at the University of Western Ontario. It was there he conceived a technique which might permit isolation of the anti-diabetic component of the pancreas. He returned to the University of Toronto in 1922 to conduct experiments on the pancreas at the labs of Dr. J.R.R. MacLeod. By the time the summer had ended, he and Charles Best had isolated insulin.

Dr. Collip developed the process by which insulin was able to be refined and produced in sufficient amounts for clinical trials. Fame came quickly to the soft-spoken Banting who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine because of the discovery. Many honours followed, including knighthood. Banting continued to work and do research and coordinated the National Wartime Medical Research effort. His life was tragically cut short by a fatal air crash in Newfoundland in 1941.