| 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, 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)
National Inventors Hall of Fame 2004
Italian Ancestry
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