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Dr. Robert C. Gallo, since 1972 chief of the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, is an internationally prominent investigator of human viruses and tumor cells. He played a leading role in isolating and characterizing the family of human viruses to which the AIDS causing virus, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), belongs. Gallo and his colleagues are also responsible for the development of a blood test to detect HIV antibodies in blood collected for transfusions.
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