Robert F. Garry Jr.

Biography

 Dr. Garry is a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Director of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Garry received his B.S in Life Sciences with a minor in Chemistry from Indiana State University in 1978. He then carried out doctoral studies in Microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Dr. Marilynn R.F. Waite and received his Ph.D. in 1978. He carried out postdoctoral research in virology at UT Austin under the mentorship of Dr. Henry R. Bose, Jr. In 1983 Dr. Garry was appointed Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1985 he was Visiting Professor of Pathology at the University of Southern California working with Dr. Suraiya Rasheed. Dr. Garry spent 1991 as a Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg working with Dr. Gebhard Koch.

Research Interest

Dr. Garry performed work on monovalent cation perturbation by viruses as a graduate student. After coming to Tulane joined collaborative team lead by William Gallaher that first identified similarities between retrovirus and myxovirus glycoproteins. Dr. Garry was also part of a collaborative team headed by Steve Alexander that developed first generation HIV immunoassays (western blots) that were used to identify an early AIDS case retrospectively.