Gerold Grodsky, UCSF diabetes research pioneer who improved millions of lives, dies at 95

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Gerold Grodsky was not a physician and not a diabetic. But he understood how insulin worked as well as any doctor who treated the chronic disease and any patient who tried to stabilize their blood sugar.

Grodsky was a research scientist at UCSF who developed a means of accurately measuring the level of insulin in the body. This discovery, published in a 1960 paper, was life changing for the population of insulin-dependent, or Type 1 diabetics, and the much larger population of insulin-resistant Type 2 diabetics.

“Jerry is a legend,” said Aaron Kowalski, CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the global organization for Type 1 research and advocacy in New York City. “He was critical in our understanding of how the body makes insulin and how to better use it.”

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