Rather, the gut-hormone discoveries he’s made have led to two entire classes of diabetes drugs that are now standard treatments for the ailment. Medications like Ozempic (the Oh, Oh, Oh jingle drug), Trulicity and Victoza are some of the heavily marketed products of his basic hormone research. Banting’s discovery “sort of hangs over all of us who come to work in Toronto to do discovery biology or more particularly diabetes research,” Drucker says. “For Type 1 diabetes, and that’s where insulin started, insulin is the correct thing and it is life-saving,” Drucker says. Like Banting did with insulin, Drucker and his colleagues tried to use natural versions of his gut hormone as a medicine.

Source: thestar February 07, 2020 10:07 UTC