Robert C. Gallo AKA Robert Charles Gallo Born: 23-Mar-1937 Birthplace: Westbury, CT
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Doctor Nationality: United States Executive summary: Identified first retroviruses in humans Co-discoverer, with Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, of the HIV virus, proving it causes AIDS. Father: Francis Anton Gallo (metallurgist) Mother: Louise Mary Ciancuilli Sister: Judith Gallo (d. Mar-1949, childhood leukemia) Wife: Mary Jane Hayes (m. 1-Jul-1961, two children) Son: Robert Charles Gallo Son: Marcus Gallo
High School: Sacred Heart High School, Waterbury, CT University: BS Biology, Providence College (1959) Medical School: MD, Jefferson Medical College (1963) Scholar: Resident-in-Medicine, University of Chicago (1963-65) Professor: University of Maryland (1993-)
National Academy of Sciences 1988 National Cancer Institute (1965-93) New Leadership for America PAC Obama for America Lasker Award Basic Medical Research Award (1982) Dickson Prize 1984 Lasker Award Clinical Medical Research Award (1986) Japan Prize 1988 National Inventors Hall of Fame 2004 Dan David Prize 2009 Italian Ancestry
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