Gregg Gonsalves served as Policy Director of the Treatment Action Group (TAG). He is also the co-chair of the National Organizations Responding to AIDS Research Working Group. He is now working at GMHC.
Mr. Gonsalves has worked on behalf of people with HIV since 1990, first as a member of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)/Boston and then ACT UP/NY. He founded TAG in 1992 with a dozen other former members of the Treatment and Data Committee of ACT UP/NY. In 1995, he found out that he was himself HIV+.
He is the author of three reports on research on HIV infection: AIDS Research at the NIH: A Critical Review (1992, with Mark Harrington), Basic Research on HIV Infection: A Report from the Front (1993), NIH Funded AIDS Vaccine Research: A Critical Review (2000) and has contributed to other reports by TAG and written for numerous other publications. His 1992 report spurred Congress and the Clinton Administration to reorganize AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by setting up an Office of AIDS Research (OAR) to lead the nation's research efforts on the disease.
Mr. Gonsalves was also the driving force behind the first research conference ever on longterm survivors of HIV infection, Immunologic and Host Genetic Resistance to HIV Infection and Disease, sponsored by the NIH in 1993 and a major conference on eradicating HIV, Cellular and Systemic Reservoirs for HIV in Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, sponsored by TAG and the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1996.
He has served as a consultant to the Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration where he pushed for more rigorous evaluation of HIV medications to ensure that patients with HIV had better information about the drugs they were putting into their bodies. He has also served on numerous advisory committees for the NIH where he is currently in a member of the OAR Advisory Council.
His areas of special interest include AIDS drug development and regulation, clinical research methodology, HIV vaccines, immune based therapies and basic research on HIV infection.
Mr. Gonsalves was born and raised in East Meadow, Long Island, NY. He attended Tufts University in Massachusetts where he studied both Russian Language and Literature and English.
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