The story

In 1984 Cyril Bowers at Tulane University and Frank Momany designed GHRP-6 from shapes of met-enkephalin and showed it released growth hormone straight from the pituitary. Nobody knew what receptor it hit until Merck cloned the GHS receptor in 1996, and in 1999 Kojima and Kangawa in Japan found the body's own key, ghrelin. In Belgrade, Vera Popovic and Sandra Pekic made GHRH plus GHRP-6 a standard test of growth hormone reserve across Eastern Europe. In Havana, Jorge Berlanga-Acosta's group at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology showed GHRP-6 protects heart, liver, gut and brain from injury, and measured how it moves through the human body.