Bunting

Canadian physiologist. He initially studied theology at the University of Toronto, but soon switched to medicine, graduating in 1916. He served as a military doctor in World War I, and after being wounded and discharged, worked at the Toronto Children's Hospital. In 1921, in the laboratory of University of Toronto professor JJR Macleod, together with his assistant CH Best, he attempted to extract a blood sugar-lowering factor secreted from the pancreas in dogs, discovering insulin and successfully using it to treat diabetes (1922). For this achievement, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Macleod in 1923. However, Macleod did not acknowledge Macleod's achievement, and shared the prize money with Best. In the same year, he became director of the University of Toronto's Institute of Medical Research, and thereafter devoted himself to research into cancer and blood clots. He died in an airplane crash in 1941.

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カナダの生理学者．トロント大学ではじめ神学を志したが，まもなく医学に転じ，1916年に卒業．軍医として第一次世界大戦に従軍し，負傷して退役ののち，トロント小児病院に勤務．1921年トロント大学教授J.J.R. Macleod(マクラウド)の研究室で，助手のC.H. Bestとともに，イヌを使って膵臓から分泌される血糖降下因子の抽出を試み，インスリンを発見し，糖尿病の治療に用いて成功した(1922年)．この功績により，1923年Macleodとともにノーベル生理学医学賞を受賞．ただし，かれはMacleodの功績を認めず，賞金をBestと分けあった．同年トロント大学医学研究所所長に就任し，以後，がんや血栓の研究に従事した．1941年飛行機事故で死亡．

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