
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 22, 1995                   TAG: 9501230089
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                 LENGTH: Short

AIDS PIONEER STUDIES VIROLOGY RESEARCH SITE IN RICHMOND

Dr. Robert C. Gallo, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, is looking at a biotechnology research park being developed in downtown Richmond as a possible site for a human virology institute.

Dr. William L. Dewey, executive vice president of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park, said Gallo's institute ultimately would employ nearly 300 people, mostly professional scientists.

Dewey said the institute would be involved in basic research, population studies and patient-oriented research.

Gallo works at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. He is leaving the institute and, according to Dewey, plans to establish the human virology institute on the East Coast.

Dewey said Gallo has visited the park and the adjoining Medical College of Virginia campus twice this month. ``We are competing with other places'' for the institute, Dewey said.

The park is being developed on 22 acres just west of Virginia Commonwealth University's MCV campus.

by CNB