Frederick Banting An article he read about the pancreas piqued Banting's interest in diabetes. Banting had to give a talk on the pancreas to one of his classes at the University of Western Ontario on November 1, 1920, and he was therefore reading reports that other scientists had written. Research by Naunyn, Minkowski, Opie, Sharpey-Schafer, and others suggested that diabetes resulted from a lack of a protein hormone secreted by the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Schafer had named this putative hormone "insulin". The hormone was thought to control the metabolism of sugar; its lack led to an increase of sugar
Kolej MARA Banting Kolej MARA Banting Kolej MARA Banting (; abbreviated KMB or MCB; formerly known as "MRSM Banting") is one of the four pre-university colleges operated by MARA. The school is state funded and headed by a director. It is a top-ranked IB world school, scoring above the international average in candidates with 45 IB points and candidates obtaining higher than 42 IB points. MCB is an International Baccalaureate World School since October 1990. Its history began in 1985 when the GCE A-Level programme was introduced in MARA Junior Science College Seremban (MRSM Seremban, now known as Kolej MARA Seremban). To diversify