Collip, James Bertram
Biochemist
1892-1965

Dr. Collip came to the University in 1915 as a lecturer in 
physiology and biochemistry.  In 1921 he received a 
Rockefeller Scholarship at the University of Toronto, where 
he contributed significantly to the research on insulin and 
shared in Banting’s and MacLeod’s 1923 Nobel Prize in 
Medicine.  Dr. Collip returned to the University of Alberta 
in 1922 as a professor of biochemistry.  He attained his MD 
in 1926.  In 1928 he joined McGill University as head of the 
Biochemistry Department, and from 1947 to 1961 he was Dean 
of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. Here he 
was Head of the Department of Medical Research, which he 
founded, until his death in 1965.  Recent scholarship has 
enhanced Dr. Collip’s role in the development of insulin.  
Together with his other contributions in endocrinology, 
including his isolation of the parathyroid hormone during 
his tenure at the University of Alberta, he stands as a 
major figure in medical history.

Multiple media, 1913-1990, 0.68 m

Awards, 1924
Photographic copies (colour) of two scrolls.

Biographical material, 1954-1990

Collip Medical Research Laboratory, University of Western
Ontario, 1958-1968
Publications.

Clippings, 1946-1982

Photographs, [19-]

Publications, 1913-1939

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