Our history spans a century and it all began with two small Danish companies, Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium and Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium. After hearing of the discovery of insulin in 1921, Danis
h Nobel laureate August Krogh and his wife Marie, a doctor living with diabetes, were intrigued. At Marie’s urging, August travelled to Canada to seek permission from the researchers to produce this life-saving medicine in Denmark. Upon August’s return, Marie also convinced the scientist Hans Christian Hagedorn to join her husband and August Kongsted from Løvens Kemiske Fabrik. In March 1923, the first patients were treated with their insulin, setting in motion a century of innovation withi
