Maud Lenora Menten

Maud Leonora Menten. Born Port Lambton, Ontario 1879  Died 1960. A dedicated and outstanding medical scientist she was the first Canadian woman to receive a medical doctorate in 1911 at the University of Toronto. In 1913, while working in Germany, she and a colleague Leonor Michaelis developed the Michaelis-Menten equation which is a basic biochemical concept. She continued researching and publishing and made discoveries relating to blood sugar, hemoglobin and kidney functions. From 1951-1954 she conducted cancer research in British Columbia.