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Robert Charles Gallo is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.
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science · American biomedical researcher (born 1937) · virologist · oncologist · physician · immunologist · biochemist · infectious disease physician · university teacher · also Robert Gallo, R Gallo, Robert C. Gallo, Robert Charles Gallo, R. C. Gallo, Gallo
Born 23 March 1937 · Q469904
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Awarded Fellow of the AACR Academy (2014).
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Gallo and his team received $23
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Awarded Dan David Prize (2009).
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Montagnier and his colleague Françoise Barré-Sinoussi from the Institut Pasteur were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the discovery of HIV
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Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005).
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Gallo co-founded Profectus BioSciences, Inc
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2000).
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1999).
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Awarded Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (1997).
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In a partnership including the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore
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Gallo with his colleagues Paolo Lusso and Fiorenza Cocchi published their discovery that chemokines, a class of naturally occurring compounds, are potent and specific HIV inhibitors
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The French-American blood-test agreement was tweaked, so that Montagnier received a bigger share of royalties from the sale of test kits
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Following years of controversy surrounding a 1987 out of court settlement between the National Institutes of Health and France's Pasteur Institute, Gallo admitted the virus he claimed to have discovered in 1984 was in re
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The investigative journalist John Crewdson suggested that Gallo's lab might have misappropriated a sample of HIV isolated at the Pasteur Institute by Montagnier's group
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At a conference sponsored by the Catholic Church at Vatican City on HIV/AIDS, Gallo promised attendees that there would be an effective vaccine by 1992
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Awarded Japan Prize (1988).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1987).
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The two governments agreed to split equally the proceeds from the patent, naming Montagnier and Gallo co-discoverers
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Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1986).
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For "determining that the retrovirus now known as HIV-1 is the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Gallo, Dharam Ablashi, and Syed Zaki Salahuddin discovered human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), later found to cause Roseola infantum, an infantile disease
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Awarded Dickson Prize in Medicine (1985).
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Awarded Charles S. Mott Prize (1984).
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Gallo and his collaborators published a series of four papers in the scientific journal Science demonstrating that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III in the belief that the virus was related to the leukemia
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Awarded Leopold Griffuel Prize (1983).
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Describing a retrovirus they called LAV (lymphadenopathy associated virus), isolated from a patient at risk for AIDS
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1982).
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Gallo received the Lasker Award: "For his pioneering studies that led to the discovery of the first human RNA tumor virus [the old name for retroviruses] and its association with certain leukemias and lymphomas
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To IL-2 (interleukin-2) by the Second International Lymphokine Conference (which was held in Interlaken, Switzerland)
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Doris Morgan, a first year post-doctoral fellow in Gallo's lab, was asked by Gallo to examine culture fluid of activated lymphocytes for the possible production of growth factors
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Which described blastogenic transformation of lymphocytes in extracellular media
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From Providence College and received a M
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Born 1937-03-23.
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