BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine mourns the passing of Stewart Greenebaum, a lifelong Baltimore resident, former president of Greenebaum and Rose Associates, and past chairman of the IHV Board of Advisors, as well as a guiding force in the establishment of the IHV at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
“These days are the saddest in the history of the Institute of Human Virology,” said Robert C. Gallo, MD, The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. “We have lost a great man, a great friend - a friend to us personally and a friend to the Institute. Stewart Greenebaum was a husband, father, grandfather, and a successful businessman with an immense heart for those in need, and for those trying to help what he called the human condition. Stewart was, through and through, a great Baltimorean in his fierce dedication to improve the City. He will be forever marked in our collective memories.”
Mr. Greenebaum was a major force in recruiting the IHV’s three co-founders, Robert Gallo, MD, Robert Redfield, MD, The Robert C. Gallo, MD, Endowed Professorship in Translational Medicine, Associate Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and William Blattner, MD, now retired, to form the IHV in 1996 as a partnership between the State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore, the University System of Maryland and the University of Maryland Medical System. Mr. Greenebaum subsequently served as Board Chairman of the IHV in its early, formative years and helped build the foundation from which the IHV could and would flourish. He received the Institute’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Service in 2004.
“Stewart helped us in so many ways with his wise counsel and his generous philanthropic contributions,” said Dr. Gallo. “We will miss his storytelling and we will miss his jokes, which were fantastic, unending, and always appropriate for the current point in a conversation. We truly enjoyed our dinners with him. Further, my wife and I personally were particularly thrilled to have Stewart and his wife, Marlene, with us on some of our most memorable trips including to Spain and Israel.”
Dr. Gallo continued, “We also greatly appreciate the Greenebaums for originating and sponsoring the IHV’s Annual Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Lecture Series, which has evolved into one of the most prestigious lectures at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. At this sad time, my colleagues and I send his family our most sincere, heartfelt condolences. Stewart’s legacy will continue to live in the hearts he touched, many of which were here at the IHV.”
About the Institute of Human Virology
Formed in 1996 as a partnership between the State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore, the University System of Maryland, and the University of Maryland Medical System, the IHV is an institute of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is home to some of the most globally-recognized and world-renowned experts in all of virology. The IHV combines the disciplines of basic research, epidemiology, and clinical research in a concerted effort to speed the discovery of diagnostics and therapeutics for a wide variety of chronic and deadly viral and immune disorders - most notably, HIV the virus that causes AIDS. For more information, visit www.ihv.org and follow us on Twitter @IHVmaryland.
