Jan 19th 1922, University of Toronto. Day and night for 11 days James Collip has been in the lab preparing sample after sample of a hormone taken from beef pancreas. His team hopes this will save thousands of children a year but in truth, it's one specific child Collip is trying to save, and it's a race for the cure.
Follow John James Rikard Macleod, Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip in the discovery of insulin, a miracle cure, and stay tuned for part 2!
May 3rd, 1922. Washington, D.C. Dr. James Macleod stands before the annual meeting of the Association of Physicians, presenting a paper that makes public the findings of their study on insulin. Surely this is a win for the research team responsible? Maybe not, as Banting seems to have a different view of the situation.