Robert Gallo

Robert Gallo
Gallo in 1980
Born	Robert Charles Gallo (1937-03-23) March 23, 1937 (age 87) Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Education	Providence College (BS) Thomas Jefferson University (MD)
Years active	1963–present
Known for	Co-discoverer of HIV
Medical career
Profession	Medical doctor
Institutions	National Cancer Institute
Sub-specialties	Infectious disease and virology
Research	Biomedical research
Awards	Lasker Award (1982, 1986) Charles S. Mott Prize (1984) Dickson Prize (1985) Japan Prize (1988) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1999) Dan David Prize (2009)

Robert Charles Gallo (/ˈɡɑːloʊ/; 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 is the director and co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, established in 1996 in a partnership including the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore. In November 2011, Gallo was named the first Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine. Gallo is also a co-founder of biotechnology company Profectus BioSciences, Inc. and co-founder and scientific director of the Global Virus Network (GVN).

Gallo was the most cited scientist in the world from 1980 to 1990, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, and he was ranked third in the world for scientific impact for the period 1983–2002.^[1] He has published over 1,300 papers.^[2]