This #HeritageMinute follows scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his life-threatening diagnosis of diabetes.

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Full Description: At the beginning of the 20th century, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Starvation diets were employed to delay the life-threatening symptoms of diabetes, but patient death was inevitable. Beginning on May 17, 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, under the direction of J. J. R. Macleod, isolated what would later be known as insulin in a lab at the University of Toronto. Their extract was further purified and made safe for human injection by James Collip. Thirteen-year-old Leonard Thompson was selected to receive their first human trial, the results of which would go on to save the lives of millions around the world.

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Credits:
Dr. Frederick Banting – Jeremy Schuetze
Leonard Thompson – Dean Petriw
Nurse Anna – Jewel Staite
Nurse May – Emily Haine
End Narration – Victor Garber
Director – Mark Ratzlaff
Director of Photography – Stirling Bancroft
Written by – Nimisha Mukerji and Mark Raztlaff
Producers – Nimisha Mukerji and Erica Landrock
Composer - Erica Procunier
Produced by Shotglass Productions

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