BANTING, SIR FREDERICK GRANT ), Canadian scientist, born in Canada, was educated at University of Toronto. He served in the World War and then practised medicine in London, Ontario, until May 1921, when he com menced research at the University of Toronto on the internal secretion of the pancreas. In 1922 it was announced that he, with Prof. Macleod and others, had succeeded in preparing insulin, a specific in cases of diabetes. He became professor of medical research at the University of Toronto in 1923 and, together with Prof. Macleod, received the Nobel Prize for medicine in the same year.
In 1923 the Canadian parliament voted an annuity of f 1,50o to enable Banting to carry on his investigations, and, in the follow ing year, a Banting Research Foundation was established. In 1930 the Banting Institute was opened at Toronto. Banting was created K.B.E. in 1934. (See INSULIN; THERAPEUTICS.)