学术大会报告人-罗伯特·盖洛博士
盖洛博士获得了35个荣誉博士学位，是美国国家科学院和医学研究所的成员，也是国家发明家名人堂的成员。他还获得了许多科学荣誉和奖项，其中最引人注目的是两次获得美国最具声望的生物医学奖项—拉斯克医学奖（1982年、1986年）。他还获得了专门用于奖励医学领域获得实质性重大成就的盖尔德纳基金会国际奖（1987年）、日本科学技术奖（1988年）、德国最高医学奖保罗·埃利希和路德维希·达姆施塔德特奖（1999）、西班牙最高等级的奖项阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖（2000）和丹·大卫奖（2009）。根据科学信息研究所的数据，盖洛博士是1980-1990年世界上被引用最多的科学家，他在1983-2002年的科学影响世界排名第三。他发表了近1,300篇论文。
Since 1996, Dr. Robert C.Gallo has been Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Professor ofMedicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also the Homer
& Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine and Co-Founder and Scientific
Director of the Global Virus Network (GVN). Previously (for 30 years) he was at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, MD. While at NCI, he and his co-workers discovered interleukin-2 (Il-2) in 1976. Il-2 was one of the first cytokines (“messenger” molecules that allow cells to communicate and alter one another’s function) and proved to be a major tool not only for immunology but also for the discovery of all human retroviruses. Gallo and his colleagues then opened and pioneered the field of human retrovirology with the discovery of the first human retrovirus (HTLV-1) and along with Japanese investigators showed it
was a cause of a particular form of human leukemia. A year later he and his group discovered the second known human retrovirus (HTLV-2). Dr. Gallo and his colleagues also independently discovered HIV, and provided the first results to show that HIV was the cause of AIDS. They also developed the life-saving HIV blood test. In 1986 he and his co-workers discovered human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6), the first new herpes virus found in more than 25 years and the cause
of Roseola. In 1995 he and his colleagues discovered the first endogenous inhibitors of HIV, namely some of the beta chemokines. This discovery helped in the later discovery of the HIV co-receptor, CCR5, and opened up entire new approaches to treatment of HIV disease.
Dr. Gallo has been awarded 35 honorary doctorates, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, and is a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is also the recipient of numerous scientific honors and awards, most notably twice
receiving the Lasker Award (1982, 1986). He has also received the Gairdner Foundation International Award (1987), the Japan Prize in the field of Science and Technology (1988), the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1999), the Principe de Asturias Award (2000), and the Dan David Prize (2009). Dr. Gallo was the most cited scientist in the world 1980-1990, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, and he was ranked third in the world for
scientific impact for the period 1983-2002. He has published close to 1,300 papers.
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