STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Opinion: 50 years ago, my colleagues and I pursued basic research science that became revolutionary “Basic studies led to clinical and translational advances that no one could have predicted,” Robert Gallo writes of his work with interleukin-2. https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/09/robert-gallo-interleukin-2-human-retroviruses-immunotherapy-basic-science/ statnews.com