Banting Research Foundation Rev Canon Henry J Cody, Charles Strange MacDonald, William Edward Gallie, John Gerald FitzGerald, Velyien Ewart Henderson, and John William Rogers. Banting Research Foundation The Banting Research Foundation is a registered charity whose object is to fund health and biomedical research in Canada. It was established to support the ongoing research of Frederick Banting and his associates. The Banting Research Foundation was created in 1925 to commemorate the discovery of insulin and to support further medical research by Banting and other scientists in Canada, in the hopes of finding additional medical discoveries of equal importance. A fundraising campaign in 1925,
Frederick Banting George V. Frederick Banting was born on November 14, 1891, in a farm house near Alliston, Ontario. The youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant, he attended public high schools in Alliston. In 1910, he started at Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, in the General Arts program. After failing his first year, he petitioned to join the medical program in 1912 and was accepted. He began medical school in September 1912. In 1914, he attempted to enter the army on August 16, and then again in October, but was refused due to poor