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GALLO, MONTAGNIER HOPE TO SPEED AIDS ANSWERS TOGETHER
BALTIMORE, MD - Two of the world's leading AIDS researchers, Robert Gallo of the University of MarylandBiotechnology Institute (UMBI) and Luc Montagnier, president, World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, have agreed to pool their research efforts to help speed critical discoveries and vaccine trials.
Gallo and Montagnier, in the 1980's the co-discoverers of the virus that causes AIDS, will co-direct the new Program for International Viral Collaboration, associated with the foundation, and under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). source
SPAIN'S TOP SCIENCE AWARD TO UMBI'S GALLO, MONTAGNIER
OVIEDO, Capital of Asturias, Spain--Distinguished AIDS researchers Robert C. Gallo, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI), and Luc Montagnier of Queen's College, N.Y., received Spain's most prestigious award in science in a ceremony here tonight.
For originality and relevance of their scientific work toward the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of the HIV infection and AIDS, Spain's Prince of Asturias Foundation presented the 2000 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research to Gallo and Montagnier. His Royal Highness Don Felipe, the Prince of Asturias, heir to the Spanish Crown, presided over the ceremony, which was also attended by Her Majesty, the Queen of Spain.
Gallo, now director of UMBI's Institute of Human Virology (IHV), and Luc Montagnier, formerly of the Pasteur Institute in France, were the co-discoverers of the AIDS virus in the early 1980's. For over a decade, each has provided leadership in basic science of HIV pathogenicity and biology. source
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