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ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
...Office of Research Integrity was not convinced that Gallo had been completely candid every step of the way. It concluded in a report last December that Gallo had taken credit that belonged to the French and that one of his associates, Dr. Mikulas Popovic, had fudged evidence in a 1984 research article about methods of culturing HIV. The ORI report was the final blow for Popovic, whose reputation had already been so tarnished in the affair that he had been out of work for most of three years. He finally went to Sweden in August...
...Gallo's most serious problem was a probe by the Office of Research Integrity in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services into charges of misconduct -- chiefly that Gallo was guilty of deception in failing to give enough credit to the French for their role in finding HIV. Last week ORI abruptly dropped its case for lack of proof, giving Gallo a victory in his long battle for vindication. "I feel good, of course," he told TIME. "It's been tough. There were moments of personal harm, feeling down, wondering why this is all happening...
...fuss began when it was discovered in 1985 that the strain of HIV Gallo presented to the world the year before was virtually identical to a strain isolated by Montagnier in 1983. Since Gallo's lab and the Pasteur Institute cooperated regularly and swapped viral cultures, suspicion arose that Gallo had appropriated the French virus as his own. Gallo acknowledged that the two viruses were the same and that Montagnier had found it first. But Gallo maintained that his lab had independently isolated it from patients' blood samples, not stolen it out of one of Montagnier's samples. Furthermore, % Gallo...
Even after the U.S. and France struck a deal to split patent royalties fifty-fifty, the controversy swirled on. Finally in 1991, when Gallo and Montagnier had their staffs again analyze the original HIV samples, the mystery was solved. The strain that Gallo had presented as the AIDS virus -- and used to develop a blood test for the disease -- had been accidentally contaminated by a virus from a French sample. Gallo insisted that this mistake did not diminish the achievements of his researchers, because they had also isolated several other strains...