Finding a cure for HIV/AIDS?
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Finding a cure for HIV/AIDS?
28.09.2011

How close are we to discovering a vaccination for the transmission of HIV AIDS?  This is the question to be posed at UCC on Tuesday, October 4th when world-famous scientist, Dr Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the HIV/AIDS virus will deliver a public lecture in UCC. The lecture is titled: “HIV AIDS: from finding the cause to cure and prevention: The science that got us where we are today and the science that needs to be done”. 

ROBERT CHARLES GALLO (born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his co-discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the infectious agent responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research. Gallo is the director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, Gallo co-founded Profectus BioSciences, Inc., which develops and commercializes technologies to reduce the morbidity and mortality caused by human viral diseases, including HIV.

Gallo was born in Waterbury, Connecticut to a working-class family of Italian immigrants. He earned a BS degree in Biology in 1959 from Providence College and received an MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1963. Gallo’s choice of profession was influenced by the early death of his sister from leukemia, a disease to which he initially dedicated much of his research.

The lecture is the first in a series of Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by The Centre for Global Development (CGD) recently launched by the Minister of Trade and Development, Ms Jan O'Sullivan in UCC. The Centre's development is spearheaded by Professor Patrick Fitzpatrick, Head of the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) at UCC, and is also Chief Executive Director of the CGD, UCC.

The lecture will be delivered at 7pm, in Boole IV Lecture Theatre, Tuesday, October 4th. Admission to the lecture is free and members of the public are invited to attend.

Picture:  Dr Robert Gallo

 

 

 



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