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Mar 24, 2020 · Some have speculated it may have been the controversy over how Gallo obtained his viral samples that repelled the prize committee; others, more cynically, have described it as a popularity...
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- Early Career to The Discovery of HIV
- Nobel Controversy
- Gallo's Continuing Contribution to Aids Research
Robert Charles Gallo was born in 1937. After performing his medical residency at the University of Chicago, he became a researcher at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a position he held for 30 years. Gallo acknowledges that his decision to pursue a career in cancer research was largely influenced by the early death of his sister to cancer. Much...
In 1986, Gallo was awarded the prestigious Lasker Award for his discovery of HIV. The distinction was marred somewhat by an unflattering portrayal of Gallo in the novel "And the Bank Played On"by Randy Shilts, as well as the HBO movie of the same name. By 1989, investigative journalist John Crewdson published an articlesuggesting that Gallo misappr...
Despite this, Gallo's contribution to AIDS research is uncontested, and Gallo and Barré-Sinoussi now profess strong support for one another's work.In addition to the co-discovery of HIV, Gallo is credited with providing the foundational research needed to develop the first HIV test. In 1996, Gallo and his colleagues founded the Institute of Human V...
Dec 31, 1992 · Federal officials have found Dr. Robert C. Gallo, the government`s most prominent AIDS researcher, guilty of scientific misconduct for deliberately concealing his laboratory`s experiments with...
In 1991, 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 reality a virus sent to him from France the year before, putting an end to a six-year effort by Gallo and his employer ...
The controversy over the priority of discovery and the patent for the blood test was fought out in scientific journals, high-level diplomatic negotiations, and the courts. Montagnier and Gallo agreed in 1987 to share credit for the discovery, but allegations against Gallo have continued.
May 1, 2009 · Robert Gallo was the first to convincingly show that the new human retrovirus (HIV) was the causative agent of AIDS, and the only one at that. He also was also the first to provide a blood test to screen blood donors for HIV infection.
Jan 23, 2019 · In 1984 Dr Robert Gallo helped discover that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) caused Aids, and later developed a blood test for the virus. Now, a widely shared Facebook post says Gallo admitted that he and his colleagues “were forced to create the HIV virus as a secret weapon to wipe out the African race”.
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