Top medical doctors in history who contributed for diabetes research.

When any individual consumes any food product, his/her body digests the food to produce glucose. This glucose acts as the fuel for the body and is released into the blood stream so that they can be transferred to all cells of the body.

After glucose production, the pancreas release insulin which triggers the consumption of glucose and energy release. Diabetes is a chronic ailment which occurs when the human body stops the insulin production or its recognition. This leads to presence of high amount of glucose in the blood stream.

A physician is a very close friend of any diabetic. Many diabetic treatments can start at an early age (if the patient is type1 diabetic) and could carry on forever. So, a good physician can make this period either very easy or very difficult for the sufferer. But, there are many doctors and researchers who have contributed a lot in the diabetes researches which have led to the easy lifestyles of many diabetics and good diabetic-doctor relations nowadays. These noted people include:

Sushruta (6th century BC) who identified this problem and also related it to obesity and inactive lifestyle.

Avicenna (980-1037) in medieval Persia offered a detailed account of diabetes and also related it to the sweetness in the urine.

Oskar minkowski and Joseph von Mering in the late 19th century related diabetes to pancreas and Sir Edward Albert Sharpey in the early 20th century pronounced the name insulin after he discovered the cause of diabetes due to its deficiency.

Charles Herbert and Sir Frederick Banting in 1921 discovered that diabetes can be cured in dogs after they were given pancreatic cells from healthy dogs. This led to discovery of insulin injections for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Sir Harold Himsworth discovered the distinction between types of diabetes in early 1936.

Sir Frederick Sanger determined the insulin’s amino acid sequence for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.

In the year of 1980, US company Genentech developed insulin from genetically modified bacteria.