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Robert
Peter Gale was born in New York in 1945 where he attended Erasmus Hall Academy and the
Pratt Art Institute studying industrial design.
He received his AB with high honors in
biology and chemistry from Hobart College in 1966, MD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970 and PhD in microbiology and immunology from
the University of
California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) in 1976). His postgraduate
training was at UCLA 1970-74. 1983-4 he
was the Meyerhoff Visiting Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science in
molecular biology. From 1973-1993, Gale
was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine.
From
1980-1997, Gale was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Center
for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), 1989-2003 he chaired the Scientific Advisory
Board of the Center for Advanced Studies in Leukemia. From 1986-1993, he was President of the Armand Hammer Center for Advanced Studies in Nuclear Energy and Health,
and 1985-1990 he was the Wald Scholar in Biomedical Communications at UCLA.
Gale is
currently Visiting Professor of Haematology at the Haematology Research Center,
Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, Visiting Professor of Haematology, Sun Yat-sen Cancer
Centre, Guangzhou, China and Honorary Professor of Hematology at the Institute of
Hematology at Peking Union Medical College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of LEUKEMIA, Associate Editor of CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION, Executive
Editor of BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
and a reviewer for many scientific journals in hematology, oncology,
immunology, transplantation, radiation biology and internal medicine. Prof. Gale is also an expert on the medical
response to nuclear and radiation accidents.
From 2007-2019 he was executive director of clinical research and
development at Celgene Corp and an honorary member of the Russian and Chinese
Academies of Medical Science.
Gale has
published over 1,450 scientific articles and 25 books on medical topics, nuclear energy and weapons and politics of US-Russian relations with articles
for the New York Times, Los
Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA
Today, Der Spiegel, the Wall Street Journal and others. Dr. Gale has also written
popular books on Chernobyl and US nuclear energy policy and screenplays for and/or
appeared in several movies and received an Emmy award. His latest book "Radiation: What it is, What
you need to know" was published in 2013 by A. Knopf.
Awards for his scientific achievements include the Presidential Award, New York Academy of Sciences, Scientist of Distinction Award, Weizmann Institute of Science, Distinguished Alumni Award, Hobart College and Intra-Science Research Foundation Award. He holds honorary degrees including DSc from Albany Medical College, LHD from Hobart College and DPS from MacMurray College.