Robert Gallo
Overview
Robert Charles Gallo is an American
biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV
), the infectious agent
responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS
), and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.
Gallo is the director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
United States
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biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
), the infectious agent
Pathogen
A pathogen gignomai "I give birth to") or infectious agent — colloquially, a germ — is a microbe or microorganism such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus that causes disease in its animal or plant host...
responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
), and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.
Gallo is the director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.