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Robert Gallo

Born: 1937

HIV Isolation and Identification. Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier both discovered HIV, determining that the virus was the cause of AIDS, and making it more possible to control the disease. Formerly a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute, Gallo now heads the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore. Montagnier is the former director of the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (CNRS), and he is the co-founder of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention.


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Scientist-consultants accuse OSI of missing the pattern. (Office of Scientific Integrity investigation of Robert Gallo and Mikulas Popovic reviewed by oversight panel chaired by Frederic Richards) (includes Richards panel charges and responses from Robert Gallo, OSI, and Bernadine Healy) (Science)

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Science Fictions: a Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo. (Political booknotes: lab rat). (The Washington Monthly)

The Richards panel tosses a curve. (Frederic Richards committee to oversee the Robert Gallo investigation) (Science)

The true source of HIV? (resolving the controversy about Robert Gallo's HTLV-IIIB virus and Luc Montagnier's LAV virus ) (Science)

John Crewdson: science journalist as investigator; is the man who's been dogging Robert Gallo for more than 3 years the harbinger of a new breed of science writer? (includes report card on Crewdson's reporting) (Science)

The true virus. (dispute between Dr. Robert Gallo and the Institut Pasteur in Paris regarding the discovery of the AIDS virus) (The Economist (US))

U.S.-French patent dispute heads for a showdown. (patent on HIV blood test)(includes related article on investigatory report on Robert Gallo) (Science)

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