City of Hope Renames the Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute

City of Hope, a world-renowned independent cancer and diabetes research and treatment center, announces that it has renamed its preeminent diabetes research center the Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute, in honor of its longtime director and research pioneer.

Riggs’ scientific achievements include developing the technology that led to the first synthetic human insulin – a breakthrough that enabled mass production of insulin for people with diabetes. That discovery, which jumpstarted what is now a $500 billion global biotech industry, was followed by numerous firsts in the field of biomedical science. Today, synthetic insulin is used regularly by hundreds of millions of people.

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