Comment by narrator
6 years ago
You forgot Banting and Best[1]. They went from coming up with the idea for synthetic insulin, developing the treatment, testing it on animals, then themselves, then testing it on patients, then developing and releasing a commercial product and winning the nobel prize in medicine in 3 years! This was of course long before the FDA was around and if they tried to do the same thing at that pace today we'd throw them in prison.
[1]https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-discov...
Genentech (dave Goeddel, herb heyneker, Dennis Kleid, herb boyer) cloned human insulin in a year (1977-8 I think) and got it approved by FDA ~4 years later