Albert Ernst Renold (July 10, 1923 – March 21, 1988) was a Swiss physician and clinical biochemist noted for his extensive research on diabetes.
[3] This technique was used widely to estimate insulin levels until the later development of a radioimmunoassay by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow and Solomon Berson.
After Renold's move to Geneva, a large focus of his research was on the synthesis and secretion of insulin by pancreatic beta cells.
In 1986, he was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine together with Lelio Orci and Gian Franco Bottazzo for contributions to the understanding of diabetes.
[1] He died unexpectedly on March 21, 1988, in a hotel in Zurich; he was traveling back to Geneva after visiting his children in Chicago.