Dr. Gallo is a Professor in the Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Dr Gallo is an Adjunct Professor both in the School of Public Health and in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy of Rutgers University. He is a founding member of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute where he served as Director of Toxicology, and as Director of the NIEHS Center of Excellence. He was the founding Director of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Associate Dean for Research. Dr. Gallo is a renowned toxicologist with expertise in the area of dioxins and PCBs, experimental models in pharmacology and toxicology, cytoplasmic and cell surface receptors, hormone biology and mechanisms of hormonal and environmental carcinogenesis. His avocation is History of Toxicology. Dr. Gallo served on several NIH committees including the ALTOX-4 Study Section, Chair of the Board of Scientific Councilors of the National Toxicology Program, and member of the NIEHS Board of Councilors. He also served as Chair of the NCI Centers Review committee, as well as a member of several NAS/NRC Expert committees including Drinking Water and Health; Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children; Risk Assessment Methodology; and the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine. He served the US-EPA as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, and the Dioxin Review Science Advisory Board. Dr. Gallo was Chair of the New Jersey Governor’s Pesticide Control Council, and the New Jersey Cancer Risk Commission. Dr. Gallo serves as a consultant to the academic, government and private sectors.

Research Areas

Dioxins; Experimental Models; Pharmacology and Toxicology; Ocular Toxicity; Cytoplasmic Receptors; Hormones; Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis; Cell Surface Receptors; and Chemical Carcinogenesis

Scholarly Activities

• 2011: Society of Toxicology Education Award
• 2001: Chair, Hormonal Carcinogenesis Gordon Research Conference
• 2000: Ambassador of Toxicology, Mid-Atlantic Society of Toxicology
• 1985: Chair, Mechanisms of Toxicity Gordon Research Conference
• 1985: UMDNJ Exceptional Merit Award
• 1979: Russell Sage College Outstanding Alumni
• 1971-1972: NIH Post Doctoral Fellow
• 1968-1971 NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Recent Publications

1. Aristei, D, Gallo, M. Green management, access to credit, and firms’ vulnerability to the COVID-19 crisis. Small Bus Econ (Dordr). 2023; :1-33. doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00759-1. PubMed PMID:38625207 PubMed Central PMC10113997
2. Mellikeche, W, Ricelli, A, Casini, G, Gallo, M, Baser, N, Colelli, G, D’Onghia, AM. Development of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assays for the Rapid Detection of Toxigenic Aspergillus flavus and A. carbonarius in Nuts. Int J Mol Sci. 2024;25 (7):. doi: 10.3390/ijms25073809. PubMed PMID:38612622 PubMed Central PMC11011790
3. Zatelli, MC, Faggiano, A, Argentiero, A, Danesi, R, D’Oronzo, S, Fogli, S, Franchina, T, Giorgino, F, Marrano, N, Giuffrida, D et al.. Endocrine-metabolic assessment checklist for cancer patients treated with immunotherapy: A proposal by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM), Italian Association of Medical Diabetologists (AMD), Italian Society of Diabetology (SID), Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE) and Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF) multidisciplinary group. Cancer Treat Rev. 2024;126 :102734. doi: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2024.102734. PubMed PMID:38604051
4. Bell, JA, Mayfield, CK, Collon, K, Chang, S, Gallo, MC, Lechtholz-Zey, E, Ayad, M, Sugiyam, O, Tang, AH, Park, SH et al.. In vivo effects of cell seeding technique in an ex vivo regional gene therapy model for bone regeneration. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2024; :. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.37718. PubMed PMID:38602243
5. Pan, T, Gallo, ME, Donald, KA, Webb, K, Bath, KG. Elevated risk for psychiatric outcomes in pediatric patients with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C): A review of neuroinflammatory and psychosocial stressors. Brain Behav Immun Health. 2024;38 :100760. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2024.100760. PubMed PMID:38586284 PubMed Central PMC10992702
6. Campi, R, Pecoraro, A, Piramide, F, Gallo, ML, Serni, S, Mottrie, A, Territo, A, Decaestecker, K, Breda, A, European Association of Urology (EAU) Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) Robot-assisted Kidney Transplantation working group et al.. The ERUS course on robot-assisted kidney transplantation. World J Urol. 2024;42 (1):205. doi: 10.1007/s00345-024-04802-y. PubMed PMID:38554210 PubMed Central PMC10981625
7. Geddo, F, Antoniotti, S, Gallo, MP, Querio, G. Indole-3-Propionic Acid, a Gut Microbiota-Derived Tryptophan Metabolite, Promotes Endothelial Dysfunction Impairing Purinergic-Induced Nitric Oxide Release in Endothelial Cells. Int J Mol Sci. 2024;25 (6):. doi: 10.3390/ijms25063389. PubMed PMID:38542360 PubMed Central PMC10970397
8. Gallo, MT, Dolci, B, Fumagalli, F, Brivio, P, Calabrese, F. Prenatal Fluoxetine Exposure Influences Glucocorticoid Receptor-Mediated Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex of Adolescent Rats Exposed to Acute Stress. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2024;15 (7):1560-1569. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00856. PubMed PMID:38507566
9. Le Gallo, M, Moutereau, S, Gentil, M, Pirenne, F. Study of the antigenic characteristics of red blood cells units and their sickle cell disease recipients and the G6PD activity of transfused red blood cells units. Transfus Clin Biol. 2024; :. doi: 10.1016/j.tracli.2024.03.002. PubMed PMID:38462030
10. Aguirre, F, Sebastian, A, Le Gallo, M, Song, W, Wang, T, Yang, JJ, Lu, W, Chang, MF, Ielmini, D, Yang, Y et al.. Hardware implementation of memristor-based artificial neural networks. Nat Commun. 2024;15 (1):1974. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45670-9. PubMed PMID:38438350 PubMed Central PMC10912231