The Banting Memorial Lectures are a yearly series of research presentations given by an expert in diabetes. The name of the lecture series refers to Canadian physician Sir Frederick Banting, who was a seminal scientist, doctor and

Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make out ...

for the co-discovery of

insulin Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the ''INS'' gene. It is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism o ...

. The lectures are currently hosted by the

American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a United States-based nonprofit that seeks to educate the public about diabetes and to help those affected by it through funding research to manage, cure and prevent diabetes (including type 1 diabetes, ...

List of past Banting lectures

* 1952: ''Insulin'',

Charles H. Best Charles Herbert Best (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978) was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. Biography Born in West Pembroke, Maine on February 27, 1899 to Luella Fisher and Herbert Huestis ...

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* 1954: ''Hormones of the Pituitary Posterior Lobe'',

Sir Henry Dale Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Ph ...

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* 1956: ''Recent Advances in Insulin Research'',

William C. Stadie William Christopher Stadie (June 15, 1886 – September 12, 1959) was a researcher, a Diabetes specialist. He was John Herr Musser Emeritus Professor of Research Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as an editor of the ''Diabet ...

PMID 13356715
* 1957: ''Certain Aspects of the Metabolism of Glycogen'',

DeWitt Stetten Jr. Dewitt Stetten Jr. (May 31, 1909 – August 28, 1990) was an American biochemist. Stetten was dean of the medical school of Rutgers University, president of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, and a member of the Nati ...

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* 1959: ''The Adrenal and Diabetes: Some Interactions and Interrelations'',

George W. Thorn George Widmer Thorn (January 15, 1906 - June 26, 2004) was an American physician whose contributions led to new treatments of kidney diseases and adrenal gland disorders, most notably Addison's disease. Thorn was Chief of Medicine at Boston's Peter ...

, Albert E. Renold,

George F. Cahill Jr. George F. Cahill Jr. (July 7, 1927 – July 30, 2012) was an American scientist who significantly advanced the diabetes mellitus research of the 20th century. He focused on metabolic research, especially concerning human glucose metabolism in diabet ...

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* 1960: ''Childhood Diabetes: Its Course, and Influence on the Second and Third Generations'', Priscilla White
PMID 13784844
* 1961: ''Concerning the Mechanisms of Insulin Action'', Rachmiel Levine
PMID 14464644
* 1963: ''Hormonal Factors of Diabetic Ketosis'', Bernardo A. Houssay
PMID 14075320
* 1965: ''Some Current Controversies in Diabetes Research'',

Solomon A. Berson Solomon Aaron Berson (April 22, 1918 – April 11, 1972) was an American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry.Rall JE. ''Solomon A. Berson''. In "Biographical ...

Rosalyn S. Yalow Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay ...

PMID 5318828
* 1967: ''Angiopathy in Diabetes: An Unsolved Problem'',

Alexander Marble Alexander Marble (February 2, 1902 – September 13, 1992) was an American diabetologist who spent the majority of his career at the Joslin Diabetes Center. Life and career Marble was born in 1902 in Troy, Kansas. He attended the University of Kan ...

PMID 4866594
* 1968: ''Fifty Years of Diabetes in Perspective'', Arthur R. Colwell Sr
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* 1971: ''Physiology of Insulin In Man'',

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* 1973: ''Islet Differentiation, Organ Culture, and Transplantation'', Arnold Lazarow, Lemen J. Wells, Anna-Mary Carpenter, Orion D. Hegre, Robert J. Leonard, Robert C. McEvoy
PMID 4128246
* 1975: ''Diabetes and the Alpha Cell'',

Roger H. Unger Roger H. Unger (March 7, 1924 – August 22, 2020) was an American physician known for his studies of the physiology of pancreatic islets. In particular the elucidation of the roles of insulin and glucagon in the regulation of normal blood gluco ...

PMID 814024
* 1980: ''Of Pregnancy and Progeny'', Norbert Freinkel
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* 1981: ''Macro- and Micro-Domains in the Endocrine Pancreas'', Orci
PMID 6759269
* 1986: ''Does a Common Mechanism Induce the Diverse Complications of Diabetes?'', Albert I. Winegrad
PMID 3026877
* 1988: ''Role of Insulin Resistance in Human Disease'',

Gerald M. Reaven Gerald M. "Jerry" Reaven (July 28, 1928 – February 12, 2018) was an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, United States. Reaven's work on insulin resi ...

, and * 1989: ''Structure and Function of Insulin Receptors'', Ora M. Rosen
PMID 2555239
* 1990: ''β-Cells in Type II Diabetes Mellitus'', Daniel Porte, Jr. * 1991: ''Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis'', C.N. Hales, * 1994: ''Hypoglycemia: The Limiting Factor in the Management of IDDM'', Philip E. Cryer
PMID 7926315
* 1995: ''A Lesson in Metabolic Regulation Inspired by the Glucokinase Glucose Sensor Paradigm'',

Franz M. Matschinsky Franz Maximilian Matschinsky (July 17, 1931 – March 31, 2022) was a German-American medical doctor, pharmacologist, and biochemist. He conducted research in the field of insulin secretion and diabetes therapy. Life Franz M. Matschinsky was bor ...

, * 1997: ''Control of Glucose Uptake and Release by the Liver In Vivo'', Alan D. Cherrington, * 2001: ''Dysregulation of Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Etiology of Type 2 Diabetes'', J. Denis McGarry
PMID 11756317
* 2003: ''Autoimmune Diabetes and the Circle of Tolerance'', Aldo A. Rossini
PMID 14747275
* 2004: ''The Pathobiology of Diabetic Complications: A Unifying Mechanism'', Michael Brownlee, {{PMID, 15919781 * 2005: ''Critical Conversations: Fat, Brain, and the Regulation of Energy Balance'', Jeffrey S. Flierbr>
* 2006a: ''Cure, Optimal Care and Total Commitment: What if they happened tomorrow?'', Robert A. Rizz

* 2006b: ''Harmony and Discord in the Orchestration of Glucose Metabolism'', Richard Bergma

* 2009a: ''From the Triumvirate to the Ominous Octet: A New Paradigm for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus'', Ralph A. DeFronzo
PMID 19336687
* 2009b: ''An Unfinished Journey—Type 1 Diabetes—Molecular Pathogenesis to Prevention'', George Eisenbarth, George S. Eisenbarth
PMID 20350969
* 2011: ''Hyperinsulinemia: Cause or Consequence?'', Barbara E. Corkey
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* 2012: ''Regulation of Adipogenesis: Toward New Therapeutics for Metabolic Disease'',

Bruce M. Spiegelman Bruce Michael Spiegelman is an American biochemist and cell biologist. Since 2008, Spiegelman has been the Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and director o ...

PMID 23704518
* 2014: ''Deciphering Metabolic Messages From the Gut Drives Therapeutic Innovation'',

Daniel J. Drucker Daniel Joshua Drucker (born 23 June 1956) is a Canadian endocrinologist. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he is a professor of medicine at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. He is known for his research int ...

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* 2015: ''The Multifaceted Roles of Adipose Tissue—Therapeutic Targets for Diabetes and Beyond'', Philipp E. Scherer
PMID 27222389

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List of past Banting lectures

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