Dr. Robert Gallo Oral History 1994 A

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This is an oral history interview with Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute concerning the history of AIDS at the National Institutes of Health.  The date is 25 August 1994.  The interviewers are Dr. Victoria A. Harden, Director of the NIH Historical Office, and Dennis Rodrigues, program analyst, NIH Historical Office.  The interview takes place in Dr. Gallo's laboratory in Building 37, 6A11, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

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Harden:                       Dr. Gallo, we would like to start by discussing certain aspects of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) when you first arrived in 1965.  You have detailed your early education and your family life in your book Virus Hunting.  Could you describe the size of the NIH campus, the environment at NIH for an intramural investigator, and perhaps some of the people who seemed to be leading figures at that time?

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