Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery

Renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.
Robert Gallo describes a scientific breakthrough as he, his colleagues, and competitors strove to understand what was causing the disease -- eventually leading to the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus-1. It's a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.

Author: Robert Gallo
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/18/1993
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.16h x 5.96w x 2.83d
ISBN: 9780465098156

About the Author
Robert Gallo is chief of the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a two-time winner of the coveted Albert Lasker prize, the highest honor in U.S. biomedical research. Dr. Gallo was, as reported in Science, the most-cited author of scientific literature in the world during the 1980s.