Diabetes

Diabetes Timeline

By flanapat

  • Bernard's Discovery

    Bernard's Discovery
    Bernard is the first person to make the link between diabetes and glycogen metabolism.

  • Langerhans Discovers Insulin

    Langerhans Discovers Insulin
    Langerhans discovered the cells in the pancreas that produce the hormone insulin.

  • Boucherdat and Diets

    Boucherdat and Diets
    Boucherdat discovered that his patients had no sugar in their urine during the food rationing in Paris, and then created individual diets.

  • Banting Finds the Cause

    Banting Finds the Cause
    Frederick Banting discovers that the pancreas' digestive juice was what was killing the islets of Langerhans hormone before it could be isolated.

  • James Bertram Collip Purifies Insulin

    James Bertram Collip Purifies Insulin
    This injection lowered his blood sugar and cleared his urine of sugars and other signs of disease.

  • Commercial Production of Insulin

    Commercial Production of Insulin
    Eli Lilly began to produce and sell insulin commercially. They made many changes to the production process, making it more effective over the years,

  • Insulin Works as a Key

    Insulin Works as a Key
    Rachmiel Levine discovers that insulin works as a key, transporting glucose into cells.

  • Insulin Syringe

    Insulin Syringe
    Becton Dickinson began the production of a standardized insulin syringe, which was approved by the American Diabetes Association.

  • Oral Treatments

    Oral Treatments
    Sulfonylureas, oral medications that stimulate the pancreas to release more insulin, became available.

  • Type 1 and Type 2 are Discovered

    Type 1 and Type 2 are Discovered
    Solomon Berson and Rosalyn Yalow found that insulin was still present in the blood of some diabetics, while it was absent in others.

  • The First Insulin Pumps

    The First Insulin Pumps
    In 1970, the first insulin pumps were created, allowing patients to live more flexible and convenient lives.

  • Discovery of Insulin Receptors

    Discovery of Insulin Receptors
    Insulin receptors were discovered on cell membranes. This allowed scientists to better understand type 2 diabetes.

  • The First Insulin Pen

    The First Insulin Pen
    The first Insulin Pen was commercialized, giving diabetics a small device to inject themselves with insulin.

  • External Insulin Pump

    External Insulin Pump
    External insulin pumps were created to allow closer control and freedom from multiple injections. They were improved throughout the years to become much more effective, useful, and less annoying.

  • Byetta

    Byetta
    Exenatide (Byetta) is approved in the United States as a first-in-class drug to treat type 2 diabetes. It increases insulin production to m,atch glucose levels.