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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.
Jun 22, 2022 · Robert Gallo is one of the scientists credited with the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Gallo and his collaborators published their research on the discovery of the HIV virus in early 1984. This was a monumental turning point in a rapidly growing health crisis.
Mar 24, 2020 · In the 1980s, a virologist named Dr. Robert Gallo was the head of the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
- Dr. Howard Markel
Dec 11, 2003 · The growth of the putative virus in T-cell lines was an enormous step, facilitating the development of a blood test for HIV, which became available in blood-transfusion centers in 1985 and ...
- Robert C Gallo, Luc Montagnier
- 2003
Nov 28, 2018 · In 1984, Robert Gallo’s team at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, isolated HIV-1 from a larger group of patients and suggested causative involvement of the virus in AIDS.
- Sonja Schmid
- 2018
The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) was co-founded and directed by Robert C. Gallo, M.D., the eminent scientist who became world famous in 1984 when he co-discovered that HIV was the cause of AIDS and developed the HIV blood test.
A pioneer in this effort was Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, who only recently had discovered the first two human retroviruses, HTLV-I and HTLV-II. In 1984, research groups led by Dr. Gallo, Dr. Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and Dr. Jay Levy at the University of California, San Francisco, all identified a ...
