Giulio Tarro

Giulio Filippo Giacomo Tarro, graduated summa cum laude from Naples University (N.U.) in 1962. Assistant to Medical Pathology at N.U., 1963-1965, and Research Associate at Division of Virology and Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1965-1968, and then assistant professor of Research Pediatrics, 1968-1969, Professor of Oncological Virology at N.U. 1972-1985. He worked for CNR, Rome, 1969-1972, and for NCI, Frederick Center, Maryland, 1973. He became Division Chief of Virology 1973-2003, and then Department Chief of Diagnostic Laboratories, 2003-2006, D. Cotugno Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Naples; Emeritus, 2006. His basic researches have been concerned with antigens induced early during the replication cycle of human herpesviruses. Achievements include patents in field; discovery of vibrio cholera in 1973 during Naples epidemy, of RSV virus in infant deaths in Naples 1979 and of tumor liberated protein  (TLP) as a tumor associated antigen, 50 kilodalton, overexpressed in lung tumors and other epithelial adenocarcinomas. Scientific Coordinator extracorporeal hyperthermia in HCV patients, First Circle Medicine, Minneapolis., 2000-03. Since 2007 he is Chairman Committee on VirusSphere (WABT). Dr. Tarro is on the editorial board of various medical journals and has been elected to membership and/or presidence of many academies and societies. Recipient of many awards and honours. Adjunct Professor Department Biology Temple University, Philadelphia, and lifetime achievement award, 2010. Since 2015 Editor in Chief, Journal of Vaccine Research and Development, Singapore. Life President Foundation Teresa & Luigi de Beaumont Bonelli for Cancer Research, DORSO award with Italian President plate given at Republic Senate (Rome 2019).