Andrew V. Schally, M.D., Ph.D., won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his research in endocrinology. He is now chief of the Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute and VA Distinguished Medical Research Scientist at the Miami Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, and professor of pathology and a Miller Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Miller School. Prior to moving to Miami, Schally served as senior medical investigator with the VA in New Orleans and professor of medicine at Tulane University.

Schally was one of a pair of scientists to first isolate several of the communicating chemical links between the brain and the pituitary gland and also determined their structure and succeeded in synthesizing them. Schally’s discoveries have led to many practical clinical applications that are in wide use. He has written over 2,200 publications, more than 1,200 of them since receiving the Nobel Prize.