What is Robert Gallo?
{{Infobox medical person |image = DrGallo.jpg |caption = Gallo in 2017 |birth_name = Robert Charles Gallo |birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|3|23|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[Waterbury, Connecticut]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = |profession = Medical doctor |specialism = [[Infectious disease]] and [[virology]] |research_field = Biomedical research |known_for = Co-discoverer of [[HIV]] |years_active = 1963–present |education = [[Providence College]] ([[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]])<br />[[Thomas Jefferson University]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]]) |work_institutions = [[National Cancer Institute]] |prizes = [[Lasker Award]] (1982, 1986)<br>[[Charles S. Mott Prize]] (1984)<br>[[Dickson Prize]] (1985)<br>[[Japan Prize]] (1988)<br>[[Dan David Prize]] (2009) }} '''Robert Charles Gallo''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|g|ɑː|l|oʊ}}; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the [[HIV|human immunodeficiency virus]] (HIV) as the [[pathogen|infectious agent]] responsible for [[AIDS|acquired immune deficiency syndrome]] (AIDS). He also helped create the HIV blood test. 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]]. 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.<ref name=NIHprofile>{{cite web|access-date=2020-08-01 |url=https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Robert+C.+Gallo |title=Robert C. Gallo (1937–)|work=NIH Eminent Scientist Profiles |publisher=[[National Institute of Health]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607235002/https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Robert+C