How long between discovering insulin
and successfully treating a diabetic patient?

Q: How long between discovering insulin and successfully treating a diabetic patient?

Just 11 days.. Frederick Banting extracted it in July 1921; Leonard Thompson was treated in January 1922. From lab to life-saving in six months. The Nobel came the next year.

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Just 11 days. — Frederick Banting extracted it in July 1921; Leonard Thompson was treated in January 1922. From lab to life-saving in six months. The Nobel came the next year.