Santa Barbara Diabetes Project

http:http://www.sansum.org/research.htm


The use of insulin as a therapy to control the symptoms of one of mankind’s most baffling diseases, diabetes mellitus, was undertaken in the United States by Dr. William D. Sansum in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Sansum had learned of the findings of two Canadian researchers, Banting and Best, and began treatment in the Potter Metabolic Clinic on May 31, 1922. Twenty-two years later, in 1944, the Sansum Medical Research Institute was incorporated as a charitable tax-exempt organization dedicated to research and education in medicine. The Institute today under the leadership of Dr. Lois Jovanovic continues as one of the leading diabetes research institutions in the United States and the only institute in California devoted to finding a cure for diabetes.