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Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin

October 01, 2011 - June 08, 2012

Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare, Forester Hill Campus, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
May 25–June 8, 2012
 
Children with Diabetes' Friends for Life Conference at Disney World, Orlando, FL
July 5–10, 2011
Shimberg Health Sciences Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
October 1–21, 2011
Tyler Type One Foundation and will be displayed at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler, TX
November 1–30, 2011

 
To lead visitors through this history, from the discovery of insulin in Toronto by Dr. Frederick Banting in 1921 and its first human trials in 1922 to its widespread use today, Breakthrough will feature digital interactives, film, artifacts and ephemera drawn from the New-York Historical Society's own collections and from archives including those of the University of Toronto, Eli Lilly and Company, the Rockefeller Institute, the Joslin Clinic and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Girl injecting herself with insulin (Lilly Girl), 1930. Photograph. Courtesy of Eli Lilly and Company Archives.

Creative: Tronvig Group