Banting Lectures


The Banting Lectures, refer to an annual presentation delivered by the recipient of the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, and are therefore also known as the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Lectures. The award is given to an expert of diabetes and represents the highest scientific honor conferred by the American Diabetes Association. It is named after Canadian physician Sir Frederick Banting, who was a seminal scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate for the co-discovery of insulin. The Banting Lectures should not be confused with the Banting Memorial Lecture, which is also an annual lecture series but organized by Diabetes UK.

List of past Banting lectures

  • 1952: Insulin, Charles H. Best,
  • 1954: Hormones of the Pituitary Posterior Lobe, Sir Henry Dale,
  • 1956: Recent Advances in Insulin Research, William C. Stadie,
  • 1957: Certain Aspects of the Metabolism of Glycogen, DeWitt Stetten Jr.
  • 1959: The Adrenal and Diabetes: Some Interactions and Interrelations, George W. Thorn, Albert E. Renold, George F. Cahill Jr.
  • 1960: Childhood Diabetes: Its Course, and Influence on the Second and Third Generations, Priscilla White,
  • 1961: Concerning the Mechanisms of Insulin Action, Rachmiel Levine,
  • 1963: Hormonal Factors of Diabetic Ketosis, Bernardo A. Houssay,
  • 1965: Some Current Controversies in Diabetes Research, Solomon A. Berson, Rosalyn S. Yalow,
  • 1967: Angiopathy in Diabetes: An Unsolved Problem, Alexander Marble,
  • 1968: Fifty Years of Diabetes in Perspective, Arthur R. Colwell Sr.
  • 1971: Physiology of Insulin In Man, George F. Cahill Jr.
  • 1973: Islet Differentiation, Organ Culture, and Transplantation, Arnold Lazarow, Lemen J. Wells, Anna-Mary Carpenter, Orion D. Hegre, Robert J. Leonard, Robert C. McEvoy,
  • 1975: Diabetes and the Alpha Cell, Roger H. Unger,
  • 1980: Of Pregnancy and Progeny, Norbert Freinkel,
  • 1981: Macro- and Micro-Domains in the Endocrine Pancreas, Lelio Orci
  • 1986: Does a Common Mechanism Induce the Diverse Complications of Diabetes?, Albert I. Winegrad,
  • 1987: Insulin Signaling Mechanisms, Joseph Larner, https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/37/3/262.short
  • 1988: Role of Insulin Resistance in Human Disease, Gerald M. Reaven, and
  • 1989: Structure and Function of Insulin Receptors, Ora M. Rosen,
  • 1990: β-Cells in Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Daniel Porte, Jr.
  • 1991: Type 2 diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis, C.N. Hales,
  • 1994: Hypoglycemia: The Limiting Factor in the Management of IDDM, Philip E. Cryer,
  • 1995: A Lesson in Metabolic Regulation Inspired by the Glucokinase Glucose Sensor Paradigm, Franz M. Matschinsky,
  • 1997: Control of Glucose Uptake and Release by the Liver In Vivo, Alan D. Cherrington,
  • 2001: Dysregulation of Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Etiology of Type 2 Diabetes, J. Denis McGarry,
  • 2002 Samuel W. Cushman, PhD
  • 2003: Autoimmune Diabetes and the Circle of Tolerance, Aldo A. Rossini,
  • 2004: The Pathobiology of Diabetic Complications: A Unifying Mechanism, Michael Brownlee,
  • 2005: Critical Conversations: Fat, Brain, and the Regulation of Energy Balance, Jeffrey S. Flier
  • 2006a: Cure, Optimal Care and Total Commitment: What if they happened tomorrow?, Robert A. Rizza
  • 2006b: Harmony and Discord in the Orchestration of Glucose Metabolism, Richard Bergman
  • 2009a: From the Triumvirate to the Ominous Octet: A New Paradigm for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Ralph A. DeFronzo,
  • 2009b: An Unfinished Journey—Type 1 Diabetes—Molecular Pathogenesis to Prevention, George S. Eisenbarth,
  • 2011: Hyperinsulinemia: Cause or Consequence?, Barbara E. Corkey,
  • 2012: Regulation of Adipogenesis: Toward New Therapeutics for Metabolic Disease, Bruce M. Spiegelman,
  • 2014: Deciphering Metabolic Messages From the Gut Drives Therapeutic Innovation, Daniel J. Drucker,
  • 2015: The Multifaceted Roles of Adipose Tissue—Therapeutic Targets for Diabetes and Beyond, Philipp E. Scherer,
  • 2016: Adipose Tissue, Inter-Organ Communication, and the Path to Type 2 Diabetes, Barbara B. Kahn, MD,
  • 2017 Insulin Action Research and the Future of Diabetes Treatment, Domenico Accili, MD
  • 2018 Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance: Implications for Obesity, Lipodystrophy and Type 2 Diabetes Gerald I. Shulman,
  • 2019 “Treasure Your Exceptions”—Studying Human Extreme Phenotypes to Illuminate Metabolic Health and Disease, Stephen P. O’Rahilly,
  • 2020 A Journey in Diabetes: From Clinical Physiology to Novel Therapeutics, Ele Ferrannini,
  • 2021 Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity on the Basis of the Incretin System, Jens Juul Holst,
  • 2022 K-ATP Channels and the Metabolic Regulation of Insulin Secretion in Health and Disease Frances M. Ashcroft
  • 2023 Overcoming Obesity: The Discovery of Multi Receptor Drugs, Matthias Tschöp, MD
  • 2024 The Science of Diabetes and a Life of Trials, Rury R. Holman
  • 2025 Revisiting the β-cell: The Key to the Type 2 Diabetes Puzzle, Steven E. Kahn