Abraham Arthur Gottlieb[1] (December 14, 1937 – June 7, 1998) was an American biologist and immunologist.
[3] He entered Columbia College in 1953 under the early admission scholarship program by Ford Foundation.
He worked in the National Heart Institute while serving in the United States Public Health Service and became a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in 1968.
[2] He was also the founder and chief executive of Imreg Inc., a company he founded to search for new substances that bolster the human immune system.
[4] In 1987, Gottlieb carried out tests on the body fluid and tissue samples of a deceased St. Louis teenager, showing that AIDS was present in the United States as early as 1969, a decade before the disease was believed to have existed in this country.