Record 065 · Health · 1923
50%23.65.H
Iletin (commercial insulin)
Eli Lilly / University of Toronto
“The first productized peptide that pulled children out of diabetic comas.”
1921 discovery, 1922 first patients, 1923 industrial Iletin. Prototype of university-to-industry life-saving scale-up.
- Animal-pancreas extraction at industrial scale
- Standardized unit dosing
A death sentence became a chronic condition.
