Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Biography

Dr Tarro has been engaged in medical research for over 30 years. He was born on July 9 1938 in Messina, Sicily, where he attended High School, and in 1956 began his medical studies at Messina University and then in 1960 continued at Naples University from which he received his M.D. "summa cum laude» in 1962 and the professorship for Oncological Virology in 1972. His research work began in 1960 in the virology laboratory of the department of Medical Pathology at the University of Naples and continued during the entire period of his medical studies. In I963 and 1964 he was at the Polyclinic of the University in Naples receiving training in pathology, neurology and internal medicine. In 1965 he went to the Children's Hospital Research Foundation at the University of Cincinnati, where he worked with Dr Albert B. Sabin as a Research associate for three years and, subsequently, in 1968 and 1969 he was assistant Professor of Research Pediatrics at the same University

Research Interest

Murine Virology Antiviral Chemotherapy Effects of inhibitors on viraI replication Studies on the role of herpesviruses in cancer Tumor immunology Pathology of AIDS