James Bertram Collip 1892-1965

James Bertram Collip was a Canadian medical researcher and co-discoverer of insulin who was born and raised in Belleville. He received a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1916, and while there on leave from the University of Alberta in 1921, he was invited by Professor J.J.R. Macleod to work with Frederick Banting and Charles Best on a substance they hoped could treat diabetes. In 1922, Collip produced the first insulin suitable for use on human beings, an essential contribution to a treatment that has since saved millions of lives. In 1923, he received from Macleod a share of the Nobel Prize money awarded to Banting and Macleod for the discovery of insulin. In Alberta and then at McGill University, he became internationally known for his leadership in endocrinology. From 1941 to 1945, he headed Canada's wartime medical research, and he finished his career as Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947 to 1961 before dying in London, Ontario, in 1965.

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