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Record 065 · Health · 1923

23.65.H

Iletin (commercial insulin)

Eli Lilly / University of Toronto

Peptide hormone

The first productized peptide that pulled children out of diabetic comas.

A death sentence became a chronic condition.

1921 discovery, 1922 first patients, 1923 industrial Iletin. Prototype of university-to-industry life-saving scale-up.

Filed notes

  • Animal-pancreas extraction at industrial scale
  • Standardized unit dosing

SIC

2834

Pharmaceutical Preparations

NAICS

325412

Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing

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