「Insulin-related disorders include diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia. Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod won a Nobel Prize in 1923 for discovering insulin, and Frederick Sanger won one in 1958 for determining its amino acid sequence. 」
和胰岛素有关的疾病有︰糖尿病和低血糖。班廷和贝斯特因发现胰岛素而共获1923年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。桑格因确定胰岛素的分子结构而获1958年诺贝尔化学奖。