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Robert Charles Gallo (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː l oʊ /; born March 23, 1937) 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.
Gallo was persuaded to explore human T-cell leukaemias for viruses after Bill found that most lymphomas caused by FeLV in cats were of T-lymphocyte origin. He established a way to grow T-cells in long-term culture from which came his discovery of the first human retrovirus, human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1), and later human immunodeficiency ...
PTLV-1 is the medically most important species in the class. Discovered by Robert Gallo and colleagues in 1980, [14] HTLV-1 has been implicated in several kinds of diseases, including tropical spastic paraparesis and as a virus cancer link for adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Between 1 in 20 and 1 in 25 infected people are thought to develop ...
As "HL23V" would have been the first human retrovirus discovered, bringing attention to Gallo and thus scientific prizes, observers noted that "23" was the number of Robert Gallo's birthday. Later in 1986, Max Essex of Harvard would announce the "discovery" of "HTLV-IV" in Senegalese women, supposedly a type C relative of HIV (then called HTLV ...
Travis Gallo, 28, will get a new trial following the decision handed down Wednesday by the Bergen County appellate court. ... Robert Gallo never entered the interrogation room during the 78-minute ...
As it was, Gallo was left out and not awarded a prize. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] Additionally, there was a scandal when it was learned that Harald zur Hausen was being investigated for having a financial interest in vaccines for the cervical cancer that HPV can cause.
Bob and Marie Gallo were married for 63 years, until her death in 2021.They had eight children, one of whom died at 16. Members of the third generation play key roles in the still family-owned winery.
Bruce Alberts (born 1938), American biochemist, former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences, known for studying the protein complexes involved in chromosome replication, and for the book Molecular Biology of the Cell; Robert Alberty (1921–2014), American physical biochemist, with many contributions to enzyme kinetics.