Schally of the Veterans Administration hospital in New Orleans, went on to win Nobel prizes in 1977 for that research.

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But if Microcyn receives its next FDA approval, the company will begin clinical trials for wound healing at the Veterans Administration hospital in Denver.

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He traces his passion to his teenage years, when he volunteered in the lab of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Detroit, near his hometown.

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