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Medicine & Public Health
Robert C. Gallo
b. 1937Waterbury, CTItalian American descendantLiving
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Why Included
Virologist central to identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS and developing the first HIV blood test.
Notable For
- Co-discovered HIV as the cause of AIDS (1984)
- Developed first commercial HIV blood test
- Director of Institute of Human Virology
Honors & Recognition
- Lasker Award for Clinical Research (1982)
- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Sources
- Institute of Human Virologyacademic
- Encyclopaedia Britannicabiography
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Is Robert C. Gallo Italian?
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Medicine & Public Health
- Specialty
- Virology
- Years
- b. 1937
- Birth Place
- Waterbury, CT
- Origin
- Italian American descendant
- Publication Status
- Published
- Ancestry Verification
- Confirmed
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