NEXT month, there will be celebrations in Scotland, especially in Aberdeen, to mark the centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or…
NEXT month, there will be celebrations in Scotland, especially in Aberdeen, to mark the centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor John James Rickard Macleod, the Scotsman credited with being the co-discoverer of insulin, who thus helped to save millions of lives as sufferers of diabetes were at last able to be successfully treated for the disease.
Always known as Jack to his friends, Macleod was a bright pupil academically at Aberdeen Grammar School, and from there, he moved on to study medicine at Aberdeen University where he came under the influence and tutelage of a brilliant physiologist, Professor John Alexander MacWilliam, whose pioneering work on heart arrhythmia was widely acclaimed.
“Macleod’s research reputation grew quickly and in 1903, 10 days short of his 27th birthday, he set sail for the United States where he had been recruited by a University in Cleveland to become a professor of physiology. As early as 1905, he had his first work on the subject of diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism published, and in 1910, he gave a famous lecture to the American Medical Association about the various experimental approaches to finding the cause and possibly the cure for diabetes.
Then came a fateful meeting in November 1920, which would change the world for diabetics. Macleod was approached by 29-year-old Dr Frederick Grant Banting, a war hero – he won the Military Cross for his bravery on the Western Front – from Allison, Ontario. Banting had the idea of treating diabetes with pancreas extracts but he had not researched the subject as much as Macleod who nevertheless took him on. Within three years, both men would share the Nobel Prize.
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