Insulin. Sanger earned his Ph.D. by studying the metabolism ... Sanger, however, did not have to wait long. As soon as his discovery was published, the study of proteins was revolutionized ...

Fred Sanger in Cambridge ... He turned his attention to insulin and he discovered the amino acid structure of insulin. No longer did it have to be extracted from animals, it could be made by ...

Fred Sanger was awarded the rare ... Ever since the 1940s, when I discovered the first tetra-peptide sequences at the ends of the insulin chains, I have been hooked and have worked with sequences ...

Photo: In this lab, Banting and Best carried out early experiments which led to the discovery of insulin. In 1920, Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting visited the University of Toronto to speak to ...